For something approaching half a century, Christian Science has been spreading round the globe, and it may safely be said that it has completed the circumvallation.
The
Christian Scientist who is a parent may well be thankful to have a child grow up under the influence of the spiritual understanding of the teachings of Jesus as set before us in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
A discussion
of the subject of physical diagnosis from a Christian Science standpoint would seem to be entirely unnecessary, as metaphysics is so at variance with physics; but the belief of materiality is so fixed in the human mind that it is eradicated with difficulty.
Noticing in the Colonist the letter by "A Truth Seeker," which refers to statements that occurred in a recent lecture on Christian Science, with your permission I will reply.
According to history, the practise of medicine antedated the Christian era, but neither before nor since have material methods of healing equaled the method of Jesus of Nazareth nineteen hundred years ago.
Those only are confused respecting the teaching of Christian Science as to death who choose to ignore the explicit distinction made between spiritual manhood and the man of material sense.
I have read a letter that appeared in a recent issue, in which a reference of a decidedly wild nature, if I may be permitted to say so, is made to Christian Science, and all this on the report that a place of worship is to be let to some Christian Scientists.
