In view of the wide-spread and earnest study of the Bible which has resulted from the publication of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Pastor—was quite right in assuming, when composing the discourse which was published recently, that Christian Scientists are not averse to truthful criticisms.
Christian Science
comes with a message of hope to those individuals who from childhood upward have been handicapped by what is termed "a poor constitution.
The love of beauty which exalts the poet; that devotion to the One and that ascent of science which makes the ambition of the philosopher, and that love and those prayers by which some devout and ardent soul tends in its moral purity toward perfection,—these are the great highways conducting to that height above the actual and the particular, where we stand in the immediate presence of the infinite, who shines out as from the deeps of the soul.
In a recent issue you record under large heading the death of a child in Philadelphia from diphtheria, and the heading states that the death was "due to Christian Science," because the child had been under Christian Science treatment.
