In
the eleventh chapter of Ezekiel we learn that the prophet had been sent to tell the children of Israel that their idolatry and the presumption of their princes would destroy them.
During
a conversation with a member of a Christian church, I asked the question, "What do you understand is the relative proportion of the devil's power as against God's power?
It
often happens that one coming into Christian Science for physical healing firmly believes that it is the truth, knows that thousands have been healed through its teaching, and is convinced that it is the healing which Jesus practised; and yet to understand life spiritually and to reverse the testimony of the physical senses, seems to call for an effort which at times threatens to overwhelm him.
Statutes
which are really designed to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery—which contain no curiously wrought definitions of this phrase, extending it beyond its ordinary and natural meaning—do not apply to the practice of Christian Science.
The one approximately correct statement in the platform attack on Christian Science, as quoted in your issue of March 6, is that "the average Christian Scientist has never dreamed that these awful things were true of his belief.
It would have been difficult for our clerical critic to have selected a more appropriate text than the fifteenth verse of the seventeenth psalm as an introduction to his discussion on the subject of Christian Science.
Telegraphic reports quote an officer of B'Nai B'Rith, a Jewish fraternal order, as stating that it is impossible for any person to be a Christian Scientist and remain a Jew.
Christian Science, as a recent clerical critic has quite truly said, claims to be a restatement of the Christian religion as preached and practised in the first century of that era.
