An issue of recent date quotes Archdeacon—of Grand Rapids as asserting that "the synod lacks a great asset which Christian Scientists possess, namely, well-directed advertising.
Although Sing Sing prison has been for several years the furnisher of many columns of stories for the public press, stories which in some cases have been of great interest, though perhaps a trifle exaggerated either for political or other purposes, the writer did not remember ever to have seen in any of these stories the barest mention of religion, or of anything pertaining to religion.
Those who have not given time and effort to a careful investigation of the teachings and practice of Christian Science, sometimes say things about it publicy, through their lack of information, that misrepresent it.
My attention has been called to a booklet which has been circulated in your vicinity by an evangelist, and which presents a perverted and distorted interpretation of the teachings of Christian Science.
If reported correctly in a recent issue, our critic at one moment declares that Christian Science is not Christian, and the next moment that he does not deny that Christian Scientists are good people.
Referring to an editorial from an American medical journal as quoted in a recent issue, the British committee of ten medical physicians and ten orthodox clergymen whose inquiry failed to convince them of the general efficacy of healing by spiritual means, is scarcely to be regarded as a wholly unprejudiced jury.
With regard to a critic's assertion that our Lord believed in the evidence of the corporeal senses because he said, "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see," this is certainly not borne out by Isaiah, who prophetically said that when the Saviour of the world should appear he would not judge after the seeing of the eyes nor after the hearing of the ears, but would judge righteous.
The
world today has already received wonderful benefits through Christian Science, and not the least of these is the revolutionized thought of the medical fraternity and all others engaged in the endeavor to relieve humanity of its suffering.
Christian
people are familiar with the story of Saul of Tarsus, and how by a sudden illumination he was converted to a follower of the once despised Nazarene.
