The statement made in a letter advocating the use of a certain patent medicine, by one who is styled "A Teacher of New Thought," to the effect that New Thought is "akin to Christian Science" is erroneous.
It seems an honest query, worthy of an answer, which has been raised by the gentleman from Ohio relative to the healing of animals by Christian Science.
There is never any particular advantage to be gained by chasing the meaning of words through a dictionary, words, that is to say, which are found in the Bible.
In
his second epistle to Timothy, Paul says, "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
An
American writer who sailed on the last trip of the "Lusitania," and who was among those that did not return, once wrote: "Christian Scientists look as if they had found something; the rest of us look as if we were still seeking.
While
passing a busy corner in our city on her way to the Wednesday evening service on Halloween, a student of Christian Science noticed among the passing masqueraders a little fellow about six or seven years of age, masked and in costume, jumping up and down screaming with all his might.
In
Jesus' beautiful utterance which is recorded in the fourth chapter of John, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work," there is a lesson on supply which is of great value to those who are at work to-day in the Father's vineyard, for by it Jesus attested to the sustaining, nourishing, and vitalizing power of spiritual radiation—doing the works.