Perhaps you will allow one who is not a member of the Christian Science body, but who has occasionally attended their services in Blackburn, to give a brief account of his impressions and experiences.
A recent
author, who is gifted above the ordinary with the vision of faith, points out the difficulty we experience in speaking freely of those things about which we feel most deeply, while "at the same time it is the deepest feeling which most persistently urges to self-expression.
A common
misunderstanding in regard to the teachings of Christian Science, and one which its students are often called upon to correct, is with regard to Christ Jesus as a Saviour.
For
some time after the Monitor first came into our home, we read the head-lines, an occasional article, and then turned to the special article on the Home Forum page, as with our regular Science reading, the daily papers, and the weekly and monthly magazines which had already become established with us, there seemed to be no time for a thorough perusal of another paper.
One
of the greatest wonders that has ever filled the human mind is the discovery, with its positive proof, that the celestial bodies move in definite, determinable paths.
A very little trouble would have saved our critic, the vicar, from committing himself to such statements as that Christian Science denied the personality of God, the sonship of Christ Jesus, his death and resurrection, and others of a like character.
A recent issue reports a clergyman as referring in his sermon to Christian Science as a "non-Christian faith," and classing it with oriental religions.
Our clerical critic has referred to a few people as having passed away under Christian Science treatment, dying with cancer and tuberculosis, and the public must be the judge whether or not charity was here made manifest.
