Frequently
an individual comes to Christian Science who has had some previous religious experiences in which the Scriptural promises of peace and harmony have not been realized, or perhaps his religious affiliations have failed to protect him against sickness, discouragement, or other vicissitudes.
A correspondent in intimating that Christian Scientists, in common with every one else, use only such portions of the Bible as "suit their requirements," has touched upon the thing that through the ages has made religion dogmatic instead of spiritual.
From reference made from time to time in the press, and also in an article published in your paper some few months since, it would appear that there are many misapprehensions with regard to Christian Science, and it has been described as "a substitute for the gospel," "a nostrum" and "Spiritism.
In a Saturday issue was printed some copy furnished by a news syndicate wherein a medical writer undertook to inject in the body of his article on disease prevention an attack on Christian Science so unfair that in other papers coming to my notice editors struck out the objectionable paragraphs.
The speaker at the Tabernacle, as reported in The World, had a splendid opportunity to give his audience some authentic information on the subject of Christian Science.
The classification of Christian Science with hypnotism and psychology by a recent writer in your columns was unfortunate, as they are basically and wholly dissimilar, in both teaching and operation, for the dynamic force in Christian Science practice, the divine Mind or Spirit, is not even recognized in the other teachings mentioned.
Christian Science
teaches that just in proportion as human thought becomes spiritualized through right thinking and living, we may feel sure of divine protection at all times.
A certain
student of Christian Science, sleeping out of doors high on a western hill, wakened each morning in the winter to see only the bare, black branches of a couple of poplar trees beating back and forth in the bitter wind.
Admittedly
the usefully active life is the only life worth living, and happy is the one who has deliberately gone into a business in which the applying, according to his ability, of the one or the two or the five talents received from his Lord brings forth logical returns.