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.
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.
In an article entitled "How Nervousness Can Be Healed" it is maintained that "suggestion, belief, is the supporting and operative power" in Christian Science healing.
My attention has been called to an article entitled, "Osborn on Isms and Science," in which Christian Science is erroneously classed with Spiritualism, Theosophy, and Buddhism, and all are defined as "doctrines of the devil.
Under the caption "The Cross of Christ" a critic states that "Christian Scientists no longer believe that there is such a thing as death, and hence they could not believe that Jesus died for sins.
In
the book of Psalms we read: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
Thanksgiving
day, 1916, marked the twenty-seventh anniversary of the home-coming of a mother who had left her loved ones and gone to a city about two hundred miles distant, in search of some means to alleviate her suffering of both mind and body.
