The remarks on Christian Science contributed by a physician and appearing in a recent issue, exhibit such a spirit of tolerance, and such an evident desire to be fair, that they merit my sincere respect, even though I cannot agree with all his conclusions.
Under the caption, "Miracles and Medicine," is a quotation from a sermon which a minister refers to numerous places in the Bible which he claims limit healing to the apostolic age and record God as indorsing medicine, medical treatment, and physicians as the properly authorized channels for healing work.
How
terse and crisp and noble and true are a vast number of utterances in the Bible! In Proverbs we read concerning "him that hath an evil eye" that "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
At
a testimony meeting one Wednesday evening, several individuals spoke of certain verses of Scripture or quotations from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
We
are prone to think our own problems are harder to solve than problem of others, and therefore we accept discordant conditions as facts, and the consequent suffering as unavoidable and as something to be borne with the best grace possible.
It
is related that at one time Michelangelo called at the studio of Raphael, and finding his friend absent, examined the canvasses that were in the room.
