"The Bible Against Christian Science," the caption of a recent newspaper notice of a church service, is so directly misleading that, as a matter of justice, a word of correction is offered.
It
is now the usual thing to find in large or busy communities, that an officer of the law is stationed at the intersection of two or more streets, whose business it is to direct the stream of traffic so as to prevent congestion as well as danger.
An
engagement had taken a party to a town twenty miles distant from their home, and it became necessary to make the return automobile trip late at night through a storm.
Notwithstanding
the fact that he to whom all Christendom looks for example and doctrine went about constantly healing the sick and even raised the dead, the criticism is sometimes brought against Christian Science that it makes the body of undue importance, in that people turn to this system of healing for physical relief, and at their Wednesday evening meetings repeatedly give thanks for having been freed from bodily suffering.
Human
thinking, with characteristic inaccuracy, has made meekness synonymous with timidity and uses the words interchangeably with equal cynicism and contempt.
The
Christian Scientist is as confident of the immortality of the words of Mary Baker Eddy as he is certain that the words of Jesus the Christ are immortal.
