The article from the Transvaal Leader which appeared in a recent issue, entitled "Prayer and the Sick," may be regarded as a sign of the times, and is a welcome indication of the change which is taking place in the thoughts of mankind.
My attention has been called to a reference to Christian Science which appeared in your paper in the account of a lecture on "Healing: Physical, Mental, and Spiritual," given under the auspices of the Theosophical Society.
Your article in the Free Press of recent date would create the impression that to "just imagine that things are all right and they will be all right" is Christian Science teaching.
A recent critic has for weeks past been insisting on the reality of matter, as though no natual scientist had ever questioned it, and has been pouring contempt on the teaching of the unreality of matter as if the ranks of the great thinkers, from Plato to Lord Kelvin, had never known an idealist.
Our
work as practitioners of Christian Science is to heal, and only secondarily and incidentally are we to expound the letter of Science, until such time as this work is accomplished, or at least well under way.
To
many of those taking their first steps of serious thought concerning the practical reason for truths taught in Christian Science, the matter of supply, in its various manifestations of health, wealth, or contentment, is sometimes apt to be confusing.
