In Pastor—'s sermon recently reported in the Tribune, the gentleman referred to Christian Science as a "confusing teaching" containing "fragments of truth and masses of error,—brought forward by the adversary with a view to leading people away from the truth.
In the first chapter of Genesis we learn that man is the image and likeness of God; and Christian Science gives the understanding of God as divine Love, Mind, and that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all".
The speech made by Senator Works of California in the United States Senate was head-lined in the daily papers as an effort to obtain a government recognition of Christian Science.
A news item from Belleville, in an issue of recent date, has been brought to my attention, in the head-lines of which are the words, "Child dies as result of Christian Science," a conclusion which I am sure is not correct.
The Tribune expresses no opinion on the eugenics measure endorsed by the city council, for the reason that the Tribune does not know any more about the ultimate desirability of such a law than do the members of the city council, the committees before whom the law will be discussed, the members of either branch of the legislature, the governor who will be asked to sign it, or the judges and juries before whom violators will be taken for sentence.
I noticed an item in the Free Press giving a synopsis of the remarks of the pastor of the North Woodward Methodist church on the subject of the Christian Science doctrines.
In a recent issue were several paragraphs speaking of the opposition by Christian Scientists to legislation requiring medical examination of school children.
I have
been impressed many times with the silent sermons preached to us by our sweet flower friends, and I have surely learned that they are messengers of good.
