The remark that "Christian Science is capable of doing both harm and good," which appeared in your paper, is apparently the result of a misunderstanding on the speaker's part.
Not very long ago the writer heard a man publicly denounce Christian Science because a friend of his had died while undergoing what he understood was Christian Science treatment.
In the column Health Hints by "Medico," there recently appeared a reference to Christian Science which might have achieved much in the chart of merit had its purport been that of stating merely what Christian Science practice is not.
Christian Scientists the world over, it is asserted, testify that having the Mind of Christ is the goal toward which they are daily striving, but which they could not find as the aim of the churches they left.
If critics of Christian Science who are fond of repeating that it is a mingling of idealism and pantheism would only study its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
It was to be observed in a recent issue that a certain bishop injected an attack on Christian Science into the baccalaureate sermon which he delivered at Dartmouth College.
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some point in the experience of the beginner in Christian Science there comes to him the desire to join The Mother Church, and also his local branch church.
