John's understanding of Jesus and his teachings did not come through the physical senses any more than did that of Peter when Jesus said to him: "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona : for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
It cannot be truthfully said of Christian Science that it does anything else but reform the sinner and heal the sick, nor can it be successfully denied that it accomplishes both these works in marked degree.
In an issue of your periodical you published a contribution under the caption "Pseudo Science," which makes the charge that Christian Science is "neither science nor Christianity.
It
is very interesting and sometimes helpful to retrace words to their origin, for often those which are much used have a deeper significance than that which appears on the surface, a meaning which has been lost, weakened, or perverted in the course of time.
When
teaching a Sunday school class in the old days, I loved to tell them the story of the vision which came to Paul, on the road to Damascus, and the eager faces and intense interest of the children made this story doubly interesting to myself.
