When one attempts to explain any teaching it is always well to make sure that the correct understanding has first been gained; otherwise one is quite liable to be misled into making erroneous statements, as was done in two articles dealing with Christian Science which appeared in a recent issue of the Democrat.
I am sure there is no lack of desire to be fair, but our critic's attitude is that of Moses, who would deliver the Israelites by slaying the Egyptians, thereby landing himself in a desert for forty years until he could learn to do God's work in God's way.
Christian Science, which is among those religious beliefs to which our critic objects, is neither a fad nor an ism, but on the contrary is a well established religious teaching, adhered to by hundreds of thousands of respected citizens of this and other lands.
The facetious reference to the attitude of Christian Science on the subject of sin made by an itinerant evangelist temporarily holding meetings in your city, and reported in the Herald, might have been of some moment and account as a part of his sermon had there been any truth in it.
