The interest in the teachings of Christian Science and its unparalleled growth throughout the civilized world are due, in a very large degree, to the physical healings experienced by those who in their need have turned to it when all material remedies have failed.
In the report which appeared in a recent issue of your paper concerning the remarks made by a clergyman, I note that Christian Science came in for more or less of criticism.
The supposition of our critic that Christian Scientists do not believe in the Bible is proved erroneous when it is known that no body of Christian people makes a closer daily study of the Bible than do the Christian Scientists.
The letter of a critic in a recent issue of the Telegram manifests such extraordinary confusion of thought on the subject of Christian Science, that I should be obliged if you would permit me to make this clear.
In
bygone days there was a generally accepted theory that a man's character was decided by the preponderance of certain elements in the body, certain "humors" which, proportionately combined, produced given mental characteristics or temperament; for example, the phlegmatic, the nervous, and the artistic temperaments.
The
question sometimes arises as to how far one is governed by his past history and religious inheritance; how much is due to established customs, and to what degree the past should be allowed to weigh against the privileges of the present.
It
is surprising but true that people who express joy and sunshine so naturally and freely in the home are often the most reticent when it comes to speaking in public.
The
faithful Christian Scientist who continually prays with the psalmist: "Creat in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me," has opened the floodgates of heaven, through which pours out an inexhaustible and never-failing stream of love; the love that today as of yore "healeth all thy diseases" as well as "forgiveth all thine iniquities.
The
gracious work of Christian Science is manifest in the redemption of men from the control of habits which, though undesirable, they once considered fixed.
