When Isaiah used the words, "strong drink," in a more pronounced way than Bible writers have perhaps usually used them, it is quite evident that he was not thinking of liquids.
In
the branch church of Christian Science which the writer attends it is customary for the First Reader to announce the silent prayer with the following words: "Let us unite in silent prayer, to be followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer, with its spiritual interpretation from the Christian Science textbook.
The
apostle John begins his gospel with the wonderful declaration of the divine nature of the Word: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
My
gratitude to Christian Science is great for many things realized in many ways, yet there is nothing at this moment for which I feel more profoundly grateful than for the new concept of church which it has revealed.
To say, as a contributor does, that the fundamental tenet of Christian Science is that "physical sickness means sin, and faith will remove it, and it is wrong to have resort to human physicians," is a grave mistake.
In a letter published under the caption, "Christian Science and Miracles," seemingly the writer has forgotten that the word science implies exact, provable knowledge.
