In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Dr.
From the communication published in a recent issue of your paper Prof.
In reading the published criticism on a Christian Science lecture recently delivered in your city, I am impressed with the extent to which one's statements may be misjudged and misinterpreted by a critic whose motive in attending is not to be informed, but to gather material for disputation.
Jesus said, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil," and then proceeded to destroy sin and sickness, thus giving an object-lesson of their unreality, well knowing the impossibility as well as the undesirability of destroying any part of God's creation, which alone is true or real.
The account of Christian Science given in the sermon printed in your paper is calculated to cause more astonishment to a Christian Scientist than to any one else.

"BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT."

In the fourth chapter of the second book of Kings, Elisha is recorded as being importuned for aid by a poor woman whose husband was dead and whose creditors were about to seize her two sons "to be bondmen" in payment of the debt which otherwise she could not pay from her scanty store.

TRUE TEMPLES

An experience which the writer had some time ago yielded a great lesson, and has encouraged him to study Christian Science more and more, in order to be worthy to be known as a Christian Scientist.

"MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION."

From the first moment that Christian Science comes into our lives, we necessarily begin to serve God in the dawn of a new understanding.

"PUT OFF"—"PUT ON."

In various parts of the Scripture, the act of putting off and putting on is employed symbolically to impress with graphic distinctness many lessons respecting purity of life and conduct,—putting off "the old man" of sin, putting on "the new man" of righteousness; putting off the foolishness of childhood, putting on the full vigor of Christian manhood; putting off materiality with its selfishness and its failure, putting on spirituality with its selflessness and its triumphs; putting off mortality and corruption, putting on immortality and incorruption.

GOOD AND EVIL

Popular theology argues that "freedom of the will" is a great blessing to mankind: that God has allowed man freedom to choose between good and evil, in order that he shall grow morally strong; that the plan and purpose of God for man is a succession of such choosings, coupled with certain conditions of creedal belief, until enough evil shall have been overcome to entitle man to a future heaven.
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Those of your readers who are acquainted with the teaching of Christian Science, and doubtless they are many, will attest the fact that it is a "short cut" only in the sense that it follows from cause to effect in a way which is at once direct of effective; but to acquire a demonstrable knowledge of Christian Science requires earnest application as well as persistence and perseverance.