In a recent issue, speaking of the report of the medical and clerical committee on healing, you say that Christian Scientists will naturally claim the report as an acknowledgment of the great part which may be played in the world by faith-healing, but that it may be necessary to utter a word of warning as to the danger of postponing medical treatment in serious ailments.
The
absolute futility of relying upon so-called human intelligence and wisdom to direct our footsteps, and the necessity of pausing and waiting on God when in doubt what path to pursue, was brought home to me very clearly one day some months ago.
Our critic assumes that opposition to Christian Science "is aroused by its emphasis on disease and its use of sickness to draw people to its lectures and meetings.
May I trespass again on your space in the endeavor to show a recent critic that Christian Scientists are not vitally concerned with matter and what is generally known as the material creation.
"Several months of study" are credited with having equipped the clergyman quoted in a recent issue, to condemn Christian Science as unchristian, because, among other things, "it denies the existence of sin, whereas the Bible specifically recognizes sin and denounces it as the curse of the race.
