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.
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.
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.
The writer in your paper thinks it incredible that sickness should be healed "by the continual repetition of words such as wisdom, eternal Love and Truth.
In
the marvelous unfoldment of Christian Science we learn that cause and effect are spiritual, not material, and the claim of mortal mind that they pertain to matter, evil, and false mentality, is untrue and therefore already obsolete.
In
the twenty-third chapter of Exodus we are commanded, "Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
There
is a tendency among mortals to be easily satisfied with their own efforts; satisfied to have tried to do well; contented in a self-complacent fashion with the fact that they meant well, that they had only the best of motives or purposes.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
is sometimes spoken of by its students in such a manner as to give the impression, to those who do not understand its method, that it is capable of being used to further one's business or financial interests.
