It
has often been remarked by people who have gained some understanding of Christian Science, that they are most grateful for the light which this teaching has thrown upon the Scriptures, some parts of which they could never understand in the old way of thinking, the old view-points from which they studied.
Down
through the ages of human history, the mind of mortals has held to finite conceptions of creation, and has lost in every process of reasoning based on such conclusions.
In
conducting a case under Christian Science, a practitioner should show as much understanding in the audible treatment as in the silent work where the healing is accomplished.
It would be quite impossible to attempt to deal with the strange array of statements contained in our critic's letter, for he has followed that fatal course of quoting, or misquoting, isolated sentences, separated from their context, which therefore prove nothing.
Referring to an address before the graduates of the Burnham hospital training school, reported in a recent issue, permit me to say that the speaker is evidently misinformed as to the beliefs and practises of Christian Scientists.
You say "there has been no good argument so far to convince the world generally that God permitted man to discover wonderful remedies if He intended us to depend upon prayer alone.
In thanking your correspondent for his very interesting letter, I would like to say this in connection with the ancient Greek philosophies, that truth, the whole of truth, has been with us throughout eternity.
