In a sentence in the course of a lengthy letter which has just appeared in the Independent under the heading "Spiritualism," your correspondent instanced Christian Science as a system of religion which "repudiates the cross of Christ.
Quoting a writer in another paper of your city recently, it was stated that among the Yakima Indians the practice of attempting to cure ailments by commanding the victim to make peace offerings of horses, cattle, or sheep still continues, and that this process of healing is, in part, an Indian form of Christian Science, "twisted and distorted.
When a minister preaches the gospel in which he believes, he is likely to know what he is talking about, and he may have something to say that is worth hearing; but when a preacher undertakes to expound and criticize the religious views of other people, he is liable to betray his unfitness for such a task and to illustrate the dangers of unrighteous judgment.
Christian Science
, rightly understood and lived, lifts thought above the testimony of the physical senses, thus enabling one to recognize the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and "on earth peace, good will toward men," through unity in faith.
We
would undoubtedly be more alert to deny the evidence of personal sense, and would find it much easier to do so, if we appreciated that in so doing we were destroying the very foundation on which the belief of error builds.
The
writer is one of those who are grateful for physical benefits, but most thankful for the understanding of God as Love as a practical basis from which to work out human problems.
The
deep, almost unspeakable teachings of our Master could not well have found utterance in the vocabulary of the learned doctors of early Christian times.
In
pondering the words of our Master, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father," many are led to wonder what those greater works could be which the Master declared should be done by those who were to believe on him.
