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.
As
human footsteps which lead onward and upward to higher action and wider usefulness appear to follow along a somewhat similar path, a new church-member is likely to be confronted by the universal question, How may I serve our cause most wisely now that I am a living stone in the spiritual structure known as a Christian Science church?
The
successful effort to overcome anger or resentment for wrongs experienced, though an important and necessary step toward the solution of a problem, is not all there is to forgiveness.
The comparison, by our critic, of Christian Science with such doctrines as Gnosticism, theosophy, eastern mysticism, occultism, Buddhism, and the like, reveals a misconception of Christian Science which seems to characterize most of its would-be traducers.
The citations of Scripture given by a critic to repudiate the statements of a lecturer on Christian Science relative to the unreality of disease, do not belong to nor can they be associated with the Biblical account of creation contained in the first chapter of Genesis.
