The
life of Christ Jesus exemplifies how impossible it would be correctly to state Christianity, the truth of man's relation to God and of man's duty to man, except in terms of Love.
It is difficult to understand how any one, even though but slightly acquainted with the subject, could style the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Bible of Christian Scientists.
It is regrettable to notice that an evangelist has stepped aside from his work of "glorifying God" to criticize a religion with which, judging from his words as quoted, he is unacquainted.
Your correspondent is not correct in his assumption that it is an argument of Christian Science to say that "since the creator is all good there is no sin, suffering, or sorrow in the world.
Every reader of the Observer knows people who have failed to get relief by materia medica, and at least some of them know of people who have been healed by Christian Science after medicine had failed.
The
way to the place of daily occupation led over a small stream which was uninteresting in itself, while on either side were flat stretches of marsh-land.
During
the long, anxious hours of a night of watching by the bedside of her child, a mother had much reason to be grateful for the healing and comfort derived from the twenty-third psalm as illuminated by Christian Science.
