The gentleman of the medical fraternity who attacked Christian Science in a recent issue, objects to it because it teaches the fallibility of the material senses.
A recent critic, who signs himself "A Student of History," presents five dilemmas, which he hopes, I imagine, rather than expects, I shall be unable to reply to.
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line of human activity may, in its every-day incidents and conditions, offer to the student of Christian Science analogies at once interesting and helpful.
As all are supposed to know the value of system in the affairs of life, we should at once see the importance of it in the greatest of all affairs, that of gaining a better understanding of Truth.
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contribution which Christian Science has made in behalf of the spiritualization of mankind, is the work it has accomplished in fixing our gaze, not upon corporeality, but upon spiritual being.
In considering the questions proposed by your correspondent, we must of course remember that they are simply a repetition of those interrogations which have agitated the world from the beginning of time, and which have never been answered,—nor can they be answered, from the standpoint of material philosophy or purely human logic.
Inasmuch as, even at this late day, it is unusual for a socalled orthodox clergyman to pay such a tribute to Christian Science as to acknowledge it "accomplished some good," an incident of this kind is well worthy of comment.
