It
is not an uncommon experience to come in contact with one who, having tried the recommendations and precautions of materia medica up to a point where both endurance and patience ceased to be a virtue, has reluctantly perchance, but determinedly, turned to Christian Science with a faint hope that the relief he has so far failed to obtain in the older and seemingly more pronounced school of healing might be forthcoming in the new, yet reserving to himself the alternative that in an emergency or an apparent crisis he could resort to a highly attenuated material remedy to further the work of metaphysical treatment.
Not long ago The Recorder published in full a learned paper entitled "The Definition of Insanity," which was read before the Albany County Medical Society by Doctor—.
An understanding of Christian Science is not attainable by a "two weeks" study of the subject; neither can so vast a theme be elucidated in a single article.
"Christian Science Dissected" was the sermon-subject at the Christian Church in Marshall not long since, and as it was reported an effort was made to show that Christian Science is "a philosophy without wisdom; a science without facts; a religion without rational worship; a theology without God, and a Christianity without Christ.
In connection with the good editorial mentioning Christian Science in a recent issue, let me say that the teaching of Christian Science is indeed that the mortal mind produces, as the editorial declares, a belief in the reality of the diseases which it self-consciously looks for.
