It is no mean undertaking for a scholastic theologian to speak or write dispassionately of a school that differs so widely from his own as does Christian Science.
A local revivalist makes the charge that the fad and sham religions of today are the influences of hell which are trying to lead people down the paths to the lower world, that the majority of their members either become insane or infidels, and a further charge that Christian Science is such a religion.
In a communication signed "Neutral," a contributor attributes to "a Christian Scientist" at a needle club the statement that she could "think a headache or severe illness on any one she cared to.
The comments on Christian Science by a doctor of divinity now transiently in our city should have been discontinued long ago, for they have no point when the actual teachings of this religion are intelligently considered.
In
nothing, perhaps, are the dominating tendencies of mortal mind more pronounced than in the manner in which one person would compel others to follow his prejudices and inclinations.
How
often has a Christian Science practitioner been called to a home where he found the patient lying in a darkened room, a trained nurse by his side, with anxious relatives and possibly the doctor on guard at the door.
That
children have to be amused in order to attract and hold their attention, is a time-worn belief to which we all have been in bondage more or less; and we find that this belief even tries to obtain a foothold in Christian Science Sunday schools, especially the smaller ones just starting in their work.
Two
students of Christian Science had attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, and both felt that there had been something unsatisfactory about the service.
In
one of those striking passages which so often bring instant conviction of their truth to the readers of the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.
