Your critic says the "basic principle of the teachings" of Christian Science "is the doctrine that 'nothing is matter,' 'all is Mind' [Science and Health, <a class="tome-reference"
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A recent issue of the Spokesman-Review, in reporting the sermon of a prominent Methodist minister in your city, credits him with having declared that "the man who needs a doctor is the man in whose heart the plague of sin has left its mark;" that "Christ is the great Physician who has the infallible remedy which destroys the virus of sin," but that he believes in calling in a physician to prescribe for the diseases which he says "are but the symptoms of the disease of sins.
Referring to a sermon reported in a recent issue, allow me to say that the preacher was not justified in trying to connect the teaching of Christian Science with that of Plato, Fichte, and Berkeley.
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in doubt and perplexity, knowing not which way to turn, and seemingly lost in the wilderness and chaos of mortal mind, we need only appeal to the divine Mind for guidance; for experience teaches that the human mind is no guide, but ever leads astray.