It is easy for the not very close investigator into Christian Science to gather an exaggerated impression of the importance Christian Science attaches to the healing of disease.
Jesus' disciples, also the apostle Paul and the early Christians for three hundred years after Jesus' time, healed the sick as an essential and fundamental part of the Christian religion.
A student of Christian Science who can measurably demonstrate its teaching gains this understanding—that God created man in the image and likeness of Himself, spiritual and perfect.
Our critic apparently thinks that Christian healing is a process of mental suggestion; but if you can suggest what is supposed to be good to a person, you can with equal certainty suggest what is evil.
A Christian is one who accepts and practises the teachings of Jesus the Christ, and it would be difficult to find a body of people to whom these teachings are of greater value and importance than the Christian Scientists.
The appeal of Christian Science was distinctly from the letter to the spirit; from externalism—from rite, form, and ritual and whatever appealed preeminently to the physical senses—to the great spiritual verities.
About
two years ago we moved into a new neighborhood, and looking out of the window one morning we noticed several fruit trees, all of which appeared to be thriving but one, and that one seemed to be entirely dead.
While
studying our text-book, Science and Health, the thought contained in the paragraph on page 266 which begins with the question, "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank?
We
find in the book of Acts, Peter's emphatic declaration that "God is no respecter of persons," and an article on the finding of a home which appeared in the Sentinel a few months ago brought this vividly to my thought.
