In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

A Christian Scientist is not one "who deliberatly chooses to die without medical care.
I have no desire to trespass upon the work of the regularly appointed and authorized committee on publication of the Christian Science movement in New York state; nevertheless, as a former Auburnian visiting in your city, a former member of the Citizen staff, and as a beneficiary of the healing and regenerative power of Christian Science, I humbly ask for space enough in your paper to answer the recent attacks made by a clergyman and another critic upon Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder, Mrs.
Statements in a recent issue are so extremely unjust in their implications as to require correction.
The Bible teaches that a fountain cannot send forth sweet water and bitter, and Jesus the Christ said, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit;" therefore the critic's statements in a recent issue of the Stockton Letter are inconsistent, for he condemns Christian Science as "illogical, ridiculous, absurd," etc.
Christian Science certainly does teach that to the Mind which was in Christ Jesus, sin was an illusion, as our Saviour himself described it when he declared, "Your father the devil,.
A Melbourne daily recently gave, in an extract from the London Daily News, certain views of ritualism by a well-known London writer covering lines outside the usual connotation of the term, and in the course of which he says: "It is notorious, of course, that the Christian Scientists would cure all sickness by proclaiming that there is none to cure," a position which, he justly claims, would be as false as that the social problem can be solved by saying that it is solving itself.

REASON FOR REJOICING

To rejoice always may seem difficult to one struggling under the weight of some problem in human affairs which he has not been able to solve, while discouragement is the most prevalent thought.

THE SINGLE EYE

In the Sermon on the Mount Christ Jesus said: "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

INTERPRETING THE MATERIAL

The interpretation of material terms to serve a spiritual rendering is the first step for the would-be Scientist, since Christian Science in common with physical sciences has its own nomenclature which must be understood.

"THE DAY OF SALVATION."

Great truths reveal themselves gradually to human consciousness.

DOING THE NEXT THING

The next thing is all that we have to do.
Immediately following his exhortation to "be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love," Paul adds that bit of advice over which many a mortal has stumbled, "in honor preferring one another.