Christian Science does not teach that the thoughts of mortals heal the sick, but it does teach that the sick were healed in the first century, and for some two or three centuries, by Jesus and his followers, and that they were healed in accordance with an ever-operative, divine, spiritual law.
In a sermon as reported in your department of religion and social service, the clergyman in criticizing Christian Scientists said that "their denial of a personal God makes the term a mockery.
There is a somewhat common notion that Christian Science is a kind of competitor of materia medica and other methods of treating the sick, and that physical healing is its sole mission.
In
the Latin Vulgate, the version of the Bible translated by Jerome in the fourth century and regarded as the authorized version for many centuries, part of Genesis i.
Finite,
material sense is no less limited and finite in its attitude toward The Christian Science Monitor than it is toward any other product of the discovery of Christian Science.
One
beautiful July morning I had planned several busy hours in a town three miles distant from the small country resort which I was visiting, so was rowed over the sparkling waters of a beautiful lake to the opposite shore.
Readers
of the Bible the world over must surely marvel at the unresponsiveness of the masses in the face of Jesus' wonderful demonstrations of God's presence with men.
In
these days of "wars and rumors of wars," who can doubt that too much of the thought of those "that dwell on the earth" is given over to a saddened contemplation of carnage and destruction; as Keats puts it,—
