There
has been a tendency in late years, both among religious and non-religious people, to study the ceremonial law found in Leviticus and Numbers in order to prove therefrom that divine law deals with material things in safeguarding the health and morals of mankind.
"Spiritual facts" as understood in Christian Science, and explained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, are true statements about God and His universe.
It is surprising that men who assume to stand as leaders of thought, especially in a religious line, should wilfully indulge in such reckless statements with reference to a religious movement, as those credited to a recent critic in your paper in relation to Christian Science.
Considerations of space have compelled me to confine myself to negations in order to deal with the extraordinary claims and charges of the Vicar of Tenterden with reference to Christian Science.
It
is often asked by those becoming interested in Christian Science, why so much emphasis is laid on the healing of sickness, and why so much time and thought are given to what seems to be the merely temporal and material needs of humanity.
Much
of the sense of lack of time complained of by Christian Scientists, as well as by those who are not Christian Scientists, could be overcome by gaining a better understanding of what God really demands of them.
