At
our Wednesday meeting in a small place in the province of Saskatchewan, we do not have large gatherings, our society having been but recently organized, and while engaged recently in the very necessary preparatory work for this evening meeting, I felt for a moment that I had no great demonstration of healing to give, and consequently nothing to say.
It
is not surprising that many of those who are moved to the acceptance of the gospel of Christian Science by some personal experience of physical healing or by some deliverance from a besetting sin against which they have hitherto striven in vain, should at first fail to realize the full import of such acceptance; and the more strikingly dramatic in its suddenness and completeness has been their deliverance from bondage, the more likely is this failure to manifest itself.
Reading
in Genesis the story of the fall of Adam and Eve and their subsequent expulsion from the garden of Eden, one is apt to think how foolish they were, and to say, "I am sure I should have known better than to partake of that fruit;" and yet, are we not one and all partaking of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil continually?
All the recommendations for legislation contained in the annual report of the state board of registration in medicine, so far as they affected those who heal by mental means, were withdrawn when the report came up for a hearing today [March 18] before the public health committee of the Legislature.
The whole question lies in this: Is Jesus' method of healing through Spirit, Mind, God, the method which he practised and repeatedly commanded his followers to adopt, and in which he himself never failed, a more efficacious treatment than materia medica, or not?
Readers of a recent issue of the Telegraph were made aware that an Episcopalian minister of Denver had again shown his dislike for Christian Science by denouncing it from his pulpit.
Christian Science has for over forty years proved the truth of its teachings through demonstration; and today, through its efficacy, there are thousand of intelligent men and women from all walks of life bearing testimony to benefits received, spiritually, mentally, and physically.
In your review of the January magazines you mention Sir Thomas Clouston's article in the Quarterly Review on "Mind Cures," in which, among other systems, he discusses and criticizes Christian Science.