When Mary Baker Eddy passed away it was predicted by many that the Christian Science church had reached its greatest influence and would, by reason of her absence, decline as rapidly as it had risen.
If Christian Science is the scientific interpretation of the teachings of Jesus, its future needs no particular human personality to keep it true or to bring it before the world.
We are inclined to believe that the critic failed to appreciate the essential discrimination made by our Saviour in referring to his dual personality between the Christ, the Son of God, and the man Jesus, or the human, corporeal sense of God's man.
The author of the sermon partially reproduced in the Herald so frankly acknowledged the good that is being accomplihsed by Christian Science in leavning popular thought on subjects of vital importance to mankind, that it is difficult to believe he intended to say that the church "and Christian Science" have "divided the ministry of faith from the ministry of healing," or that "Christian Science has materialized the ministry of healing;" for if there is anything that Christian Science has not done it is those two things.
The
often quoted words, "Believe nothing you hear and only half you see," carry more truth than one at first thought generally believes, if applied to material things,—the things we are taught to believe are real,—the things of this world.
Novices
in Christian Science need to be on their guard against the notion that their new-found freedom of thought gives them license to discuss grave theological problems in a flippant manner, and in no other matter is greater care needed, on the part of beginners, than in speaking of Christ Jesus.
