During
a time of great sense of lack, a couple of years ago, opportunity was given a Christian Scientist to prove the truth of the statement that "man in God's image can lack no good thing.
"Train
up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it," is a commonly heard maxim, and one with Scriptural authority.
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.
