A clergyman criticizes Christian Science because it teaches that inasmuch as God, Spirit, is All-in-all, matter, Spirit's opposite, is necessarily unreal.
Under the caption "Signs of the Times," a clergyman took occasion to refer to Christian Science and other religious teachings as "travesties upon the Christian religion.
A search of the Scriptures, and especially the life of the Master, will show that works rather than words is the essential characteristic of the religion he founded.
In a sermon delivered during the Methodist conference and reported in a recent issue of your paper, a clergyman said that he had made a study of Christian Science, and yet he adds, "In the system [Christian Science] there is no Saviour, and no one to be saved.
In a communication on the subject of Christian Science recently appearing in your paper, the writer, after saying some kindly things about the importance and truthfulness of the teaching of Christian Science as explained in a lecture given in your city under the auspices of the Monrovia Christian Science church, made objection to Christian Science because it does not in some things agree with his own beliefs.
We
cannot overestimate the value of the smiles usually seen on the faces of those who are advanced in the understanding of Christian Science, for the smile of a Christian Scientist reveals his recognition in a greater or lesser degree of the ever-presence of God and of man in His image and likeness.
It
was early on a summer morning that one just awakening from sleep heard through an open window the faint, soft song of a wood-thrush from a leafy covert some half a mile distant.
In
the book of Job we read, "Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity," and in Proverbs it is written, "A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
