A contributor whose article on "The New Theology" recently appeared in the Star, has assigned to himself what would seem to be a very difficult if not impossible task when he undertakes to account for the growth, continuity, and prosperity of the Christian Science movement by attributing to its Founder selfish motives and unworthy aims.
In your news columns we find a clergyman reported as saying that a Christian Scientist is not a Christian, first, because he does not accept "Christ's death as a necessary factor in the salvation of his soul," and second, because he does not "admit the deity of Christ.
It is unfortunate that the reverend gentleman whose attack on Christian Science appeared in a recent issue of the Record should have based his remarks upon a tract instead of gaining his information from the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Recently a special number, Christian Science extra, The Bible Students Monthly, has been scattered broadcast in a number of American cities, including Brooklyn.
Interesting
instances are related of the seemingly accidental discovery of gold or other valuable minerals in ground over which the feet of men, even those of searchers for such deposits, had often passed unheeding.
One
day while pondering over the many wonderful instances given in the Scriptures of the power of Spirit over matter, a student of Christian Science turned by chance to the account of the fall of Jericho as found in the book of Joshua.
For
weeks the writer had been striving as never before to see only God's creation, and to see man as His manifestation, "the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind," as we read in Science and Health.
One
day, while standing in the waiting-room of a railway station, I heard some one behind me say to another who was leaving her, "Well, keep your health.
