The clergyman would not find it easy to substantiate his assertion that the average life of Christian Scientists "is no longer and probably is a little shorter" than that of other persons.
Having read the letter published last week in the Pacific from a subscriber who asked for more light on certain points concerning Christian Science, I present the following reply:—
Those
to whom the supply of food, clothing, and other necessaries of human existence has always come as naturally and abundantly as air and sunlight, have sometimes experienced a sudden rough wrenching away of these things,—a seeming loss of that abundant provision which had come to be accepted without question, almost as a right.
Should
one question the man in the street as to the meaning of the commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," it is very likely that he would say it was a command to speak reverently of God, or not to speak lightly of holy things.
One
morning the writer sat listening to the conversation of two gentlemen regarding The Christian Science Monitor, when these words fell on the ear: "The Monitor, you see, is a healed newspaper.
The term "sin" has a much broader signification than that of the voluntary commission of wrong acts alone, but according to Webster it includes "all evil thoughts.
Christian Science does not teach that disease and pain are unreal to the human senses, any more than natural science teaches that matter is unreal to them.
