In a recent address before the teachers in your city, a professor seems to have confused the teachings of Christian Science with hypnotism and mental suggestion.
The uncertainly which seems to exist in the mind of the writer of the editorial on "The Christian Science Organization," regarding the permanence of that organization, is not shared by those who have noted its continued steady, healthy growth since the passing of its Leader.
The advocates of materialism may not be willing to acknowledge the Scriptural teaching concerning, spiritual power, and may not be willing to allow those who do so believe to rely upon and satisfactorily demonstrate the availability and reliability of this power in the overcoming of sin and disease; but it is proven, and rapidly becoming recognized, that there is not on earth today a teaching that is contributing more toward the solution of the sanitation and health problems that confront our state and local boards of health than is Christian Science.
In a recent issue appears a letter signed "an Anti-Christian Scientist," which makes the charge: "The practice of medicine requires by law four or five years' hard study and a thorough knowledge of materia medica and human anatomy.
In the report of the lecture on Christian Science by a clergyman, printed in a late issue, it is evident that he thinks Christian healing is a process of mental suggestion.
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second of the new sayings of Jesus has been interpreted thus: "Jesus saith (Ye ask who are those) that draw us to the kingdom, if the kingdom is in heaven?
