The minister who has recently set forth the teachings of his faith through your columns, states with some show of satisfaction that the church for which he speaks has nothing new to offer in its doctrinal beliefs, and is therefore opposed to Christian Science, which, he leaves us to infer, is a religious makeshift of modern invention, unorthodox, and so of course untenable.
The public of Rochdale and vicinity are indebted to the Times for the excellent report of the opening of the new Christian Science church in Castlemere street.
The "Observer" quietly dropped into a seat in the Christian Science church last Sunday morning and was charmed with the quiet character of the entire service.
No well-informed person would say that Christian Science denies the reality of sin, without adding the explanation that the term "reality," as used in this connection, relates wholly to things spiritual and eternal, and not to material life or human beings.
Under the caption "Takes Issue with Christian Scientist," I find in a recent issue a series of objections to Christian Science by one who signs himself "Subscriber.
In a recent issue of the Medical Times there is a note about a Christian Scientist who had scarlet fever, and who was chased from Wallington to Bexhill by two doctors in a motorcar.
In
his superb exhortation to unity, as given in the fourth chapter of Ephesians, Paul pleads for "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
The
writer has often been impressed with the wisdom which placed the Master's words on the cover of our Sentinel, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
While
tramping through a wonderful section of country in western Massachusetts, on a glorious autumn day, the writer came quite unexpectedly upon the almshouse of the town.
