The effort of a public speaker to besmirch the character of a good Christian woman and hold up to ridicule the church she founded, reminds one of the persecution of Jesus of Nazareth by the religious leaders in his day.
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.
