As one who has been from childhood a Bible reader and regular churchgoer, I quite sympathize with your correspondent's fear lest heretical teachings should be allowed to dim "the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
When
our consciousness has once been awakened to the spiritual facts of being, we find that many a little incident along the way becomes symbolic of an idea of Truth and teaches us valuable lessons.
One
day, while struggling with a problem which had seemed to baffle every effort at solution, the writer opened the Bible and turned to the ninety-first psalm.
Among
the things taught in Christian Science which have startled the thought of materialists, perhaps none has provoked more comment and opposition than that sin, disease, and death are unreal; yet it seems strange that this teaching is not readily accepted and acknowledged, when the meaning of the words "real" and "reality" is carefully considered.
While
material things can never adequately illustrate spiritual truths, yet we may catch glimpses of reality through our human experiences, even as those to whom the parables of the Master were spoken found in them truths whose statement he had adjusted to their comprehension.
The
requirement of today is a fuller recognition of the unity, the completeness or spherical nature of the Christian Science movement; the fact that each activity of the movement has an equal importance with every other activity in relation to the whole.
We need a clearer discernment of the vital significance of gentleness in the character of men and women, in the relations individuals sustain toward one another, and in all the complex affairs of business and politics among social groups, and even among nations.
Your interesting report of a clergyman's lecture credits the speaker with including Christian Science with alchemy, palmistry, and theosophy as "occultism.
The evangelist whom your paper reports as making the statement that Christian Science is of the devil, seems to be giving himself needless trouble, for if it is of the devil, whom Jesus pronounced a liar, the more that people understand of it the less it will draw them; whereas in fact those who understand Christian Science best, love it most, and its crities often understand it the least.
