UPON
a Sunday evening in August three friends, on their way to a Christian Science church, boarded a surface car at one of the busy transfer points in New York City.
THERE
is a wonderful lesson to be learned in studying the ninth chapter of John's gospel, where we are told the story of the blind man who was healed by Jesus.
That which is absolute truth never was in reality new, but it is new to the consciousness of any one when first perceiving the same, just as any mathematical problem, however simple, is new to the consciousness of the schoolboy when first tackling it.
A local evangelist, as reported, is attacking a religion which differs from his own principally in that it teaches and practises the Christian healing so remarkably exemplified by Jesus, while his own does not.
In a brief extract from a sermon which was reported in a recent issue of The Oregonian, it would seem that the clergyman was attacking that system of religious thought which denies the reality of sin, sickness, and death; and further, that he was attempting to show that such denial is contrary to Jesus' teachings.
[On March 17 the supreme court of California rendered a decision construing the constitutionality of the medical practice act, which had been attacked upon the ground that it was class legislation, inasmuch as it did not require all kinds of practitioners to pass the examinations.
