In the first and third verses of the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the apostle Paul gives a most comprehensive and luminious definition of Christian Science.
For
some time the writer has been impressed with the spiritual fact concerning the incentive and impulsion of work well done, and she has been led to the conclusion that when one loves to do the work undertaken, whatever the task may be, the result is satisfactory.
In
the ninety-first psalm we find this assurance respecting the one who loves God: "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.
On
page 210 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" are these words of our revered Leader: "It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full.
Paul's
advice to the Colossians doubtless was of peculiar pertinence to the oriental mind when he said, "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
If Christian Science was what our clergyman critic would have others believe it to be, it would not have its following of hundreds of thousands of intelligent people.
The statement in The Times that a coroner's jury was to be impaneled to inquire into the case of a death from influenceza-pneumonia under Christian Science treatment, is very surprising in view of the fact that a dispatch from the state board of health printed in the daily papers of the same date announced that there had been forty deaths from the same disease in the previous two days in Detroit alone, presumably under medical treatment, without even the suggestion of an official investigation.
