The Portland clergyman whose article entitled "Review of Christian Science Claims" appeared in recent issues, might have directed his efforts to better advantage than by attacking the teachings of a movement which has to its credit the accomplishment of as much permanent good as has Christian Science, whose adherents are earnestly striving to reduce the sum total of the world's sin and misery.
There
is no greater proof of a poet's genius than his capacity to pierce the darkness of human strife and struggle, and to see that it signifies, after all, but the breaking up of old beliefs and the dawning of an era of more hopefulness for mankind at large.
I often
wonder how many of us realize, in more than a passive sense, that Christian Science is scientific; that it is not only capable of demonstration, but that the right result is inevitable when its rules are rightly applied.
In a recent issue I find under the caption, "The Bible and Christian Science," the full text of a sermon delivered by a clergyman, in which he presents his opinion of what Christian Science teaches.
