Christian Science has no connection with the methods of those who practise faith-healing, with which, however, Christian Scientists have no wish to interfere.
A critic says that "if that book [Rudimental Divine Science], and Science and Health, were offered to any church, they would be rejected on the ground that they were unscriptural.
With respect to the discussion on faith-healing, reported in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal, and referred to in a late issue, will you permit me to point out that, with all due respect to the writers in question, there is a distinct absence of logic in their views.
It is undoubtedly true that a number of actors and actresses have become students of Christian Science, because they have been enabled by its teachings to rise above many of the difficulties which they have to encounter in their profession.
Some
movements owe their success to argument based along the common material lines of reasoning, but it has been otherwise with the advance of Christian Science.