From
our youth upward our religious teachers have sought to impress upon us the vanity, the unsatisfying nature of all earthly things; but the unreality of these things had not yet dawned on human consciousness, and the pious words seemed to the listeners little else than a figure of speech.
In
the popular acceptation, the meaning of the word "time" is a sense of transition due to the rotation of the earth on its axis and to its revolution around the sun.
Through the columns of your paper I would like to correct an item that appeared in The Signs of the Times, two recent copies of which contained articles which refer to "the sophistries and delusions taught and fostered through Christian Science.
The healing of Christian Science has absolutely nothing in common with either magic or what is commonly termed faith-healing, which is often blind human belief.
The time when religious convictions and beliefs were taken second hand from the pulpit and platform is rapidly giving way to an age in which the individual is seeking at first hand for the truth about God.
In the Concord Evening Monitor, recently, was an editorial entitled "Rational Christian Science—the Cole Case," that contained several points on which I trust you will permit me to publish a brief comment.
In a recent issue, under the heading of "The Church and Faith-healing," there is a reference to Christian Science to which I am going to ask you to let me take exception.
