Scientifically
speaking, Christian instruction consists not alone of a correct statement of the letter; it must always be accompanied by the impartation of spiritualized consciousness.
As a part of his discussion that "there is no new thing under the sun," in the baccalaureate sermon reported in your paper recently, a clergyman said, "Christian Science harks back to Berkeley, farther back to India, farther back to the realms of the past.
With reference to the letter of "A Mere Clergyman," headed "The Recent Christian Science Lecture," may I point out that the teachings of Christian Science as to the nature of mind and of matter, being based on the gospels, are spiritual.
I am sure it will be a service to your readers to point out that the statement made in your columns, that "there are numbers of people who try mind-healing and find no benefit from it," is merely another way of saying that there is wrong mental practice as well as right mental practice.
If by the deity of Christ our critic means that the man Jesus was God, then Christian Science differs from such a theory, which is contrary to the Master's own statement, for he said he was the "Son of God.
