A speaker was quoted in your columns as having said that "whatever was true in Christian Science was not new, and whatever was new was not true;" it was also added that he had made a thorough study of Christian Science.
We will agree with our friend, a local clergyman, in his declaration that "illness in one or another shape is a very general human experience, and anything which addresses itself to illness, and particularly promises to subdue or do away with illness, is sure to claim the immediate interest of many persons.
The methods pursued by an evangelist in attacking Christian Science and its Founder, as reported in a recent issue of your paper, are typical of that form of religious zeal which defeats its own object.
While
talking with a friend who had recently become interested in Christian Science, she made the remark, "How are we, as Christian Scientists, to think about present world conditions?
On
several occaions I have seen in print the statement made by critics of Christian Science that its rapid growth has been the result of a well-directed publicity plan of propaganda.
Many
surprises are often in store for the one who has just turned to Christian Science for help, and perhaps not the least of these is the difficulty he seems to experience in getting the practitioner to realize the extreme gravity of the situation with which he is confronted.
