A recent issue reports in part a clergyman's sermon at the Coffeyville Chautauqua, in which he makes mention of Christian Science as a religious sign of the times, a warning bell, a danger signal.
In the address of a clergyman, reported in your paper, there is a reference to Christian Science which is so interesting in itself that I am sure you will permit me to say something on the subject.
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the practise of Christian Science it has been found that an attitude of obedience and humility is requisite to bring out a response to treatment, and this attitude is equally essential on the part of the practitioner and patient.
Students
of the Bible ever have had before them that commandment designed to emphasize the necessity for truthfulness: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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speaking to a student of Christian Science about the reluctance of a mutual friend to take up a study of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," these words were used: "He retards his own progress through the arrogance of learning.
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that which we call God cannot be seen with the eye or touched with the hand, and is in no way materially cognizable, mankind as a rule have come to think of Him as altogether without the range of earthly experience.
The presumption of one who undertook, as quoted in a recent issue, to stigmatize Christian Science as unchristian, is equaled only by the degree of ignorance displayed in the attempt to classify it with such utterly dissimilar things as Mormonism, spiritualism, and Brahminism.
A discussion as to the nature of hell appeals to mankind in proportion to their ethical mood to receive it, but the essential premise upon which to search for a truthful conclusion concerning it must first include a sympathetic and faith-lighted conception of God and His infinite kingdom of heaven, in order to comprehend understandingly the negative or converse nature of this claim of evil which is commonly styled hell, for its whole pretense, place, and power is the very antipode of God and His creation, even as Jesus said: "A liar, and the father of it.
