It will have to be admitted by every fair-minded investigator that Christian Science has attracted people of intelligence and education to its fold ; that within practically half a century it has become known to all parts of the world; and that the works performed through its ministry are matters of universal and common knowledge.
Your kindly reference to Christian Scientists in your editorial on "Grippe and Religion" may have led some of your readers to ask themselves what the Christian Scientist does to protect himself for instance, from a grippe epidemic.
While the teaching of Christian Science disavows the need of any material means as a healing agency, yet it grants to every one the fullest freedom to choose for himself whatever system or method of healing he desires; and this same rule of individual liberty applies to all the affairs of human experience.
The article by a clergyman on the subject of Christian Science indicates that the gentleman not only has a mistaken sense of the teachings of Christian Science on some of the points mentioned by him, but that he has also allowed his interpretation of the Scriptures to be considerably influenced by an education evidently based on the teachings of man-made creeds and dogma.
My attention has just been drawn to one of your "Notes of the Day" on an American novel from which a quotation is made to the effect that Christian Science is the "special invention" of Uncle Sam and is "based upon physical benefit.
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city and state make the child their first care, and for this reason money is freely spent so that the child may obtain a solid foundation upon which the future man or woman may stand.
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only the young student of Christian Science but the older as well often labors under the impression that he has failed to demonstrate the truth in some particular problem because that which he wanted to bring to pass failed to manifest itself.
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define honesty as fairness, candor, truth, and to be honest as to be upright, just, equitable, fair in dealing with others, free from fraud, frank, sincere, unreserved, according to truth.
