In the report of a lecture at Leigh on "Miracles," which appeared in a recent issue, I notice that Christian Science is mentioned in association with faith-healing and suggestion.
Following the attempt of several state legislatures in recent years to enact laws concerning the religious denomination known as Christian Science, the members of that church have made an appeal to the country at large for "religious liberty.
The truth of the first tenet of Christian Science, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life".
The fact that a clergyman would not allow a lecture on Christian Science to appear in your columns without giving vent to a tirade of vilification, is one of the signs of these times.
One
who has received without question the belief of the majority of Christian people,—that the healing works of Jesus of Nazareth were for his time only, and for those alone who came under his immediate ministry,—and who believes unquestioningly that the days of so-called miracles are past, cannot understand the expressions made by Christian Scientists of faith in the continuity of God's loving and active relation with man, though these declarations are made with the clearness and fearlessness of demonstrable truth.
The
modern thinker often fails to find an interest in religious questions, as a result of having grown up with a strong prejudice against everything which cannot be cognized by the physical senses and grasped by the human intellect.
For
some years past it has been a daily practice with a certain mother and daughter for the former to read aloud to the latter while she had her breakfast and dressed for business, the books being confined to admitted classics.
