If the pastor whose three sermons have been reproduced in recent issues of your paper believes Christian Science to resemble in any important respect the picture he has presented of it, he has my profound sympathy, for it could not be a pleasant thing to contemplate a large and growing body of one's fellow men, apparently possessed of at least ordinary attributes of judgment and common sense on other subjects, submerged in a delusion so utterly fantastic and aburd as he has undertaken to describe.
Christian Scientists do not refrain from the use of drugs and serums because of any prejudice against employing a physician, but because they have found a more effective remedy; hence this and certain other inferences carried by statements made in the "Health" column of the evening edition of the Mail of May 22 need correction.
One of the contentions of a medical doctor in a recent issue was that a person may become qualified to practise Christian Science by preparing to pass the examination of the state board of registration in medicine, and that the practice of Christian Science should therefore be confined to those who have passed such an examination.
One
night, while on the pier at a favorite resort on the coast, we were greatly struck by the power and beauty, and especially the whiteness, of the search-lights.
The
overcoming of self is a problem that faces every student of Christian Science, and until he has met this problem in a measure, he can do little toward helping others to overcome sin, sickness, and death.
Remembering
how promptly Christ Jesus rebuked the personal homage of a young man who had addressed him as "Good Master," we can rest assured that when our Master said to Peter, "Lovest thou me?
The
vital message given in the fifth chapter of John, "The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live," is a prophecy which was proved true when the dead did hear and heed the voice of Jesus.
It is a pleasure to undertake to answer "Bible Student," inasmuch as a scholar is always interested in logical sequence and is not averse to breaking away from interpretations which have only age to commend them.
The man who desires to help his fallen fellow man to become a useful member of society, does not tell him his case is hopeless and assure him that he is on the direct road to perdition.
