In
the fourth chapter of Genesis we are tersely told of the judgment which followed so closely upon the crime committed by Cain: "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
It is not at all strange that the audience of our clerical critic was surprised when he said that Christian Science is "a most pernicious and astounding fraud," and that the people who accept it are "fools," since almost every man and woman in the country has at least one intimate friend who he knows is not a "fool," and yet has been a beneficiary of Christian Science and has accepted its teachings.
In an article headed "Mental Healing" in a late issue, "The Hospital" enumerates a list of reputed therapeutic mental agencies, among the number being Christian Science.
If our critic's teachings border, as he says, on both those of Christian Science and a movement which advocates the use of drugs with prayer, it necessarily follows that his ideas are a combination of opposites which find no amalgamation either in logic or application, since Christian Science is as far removed from this movement as the divine will upon which Christ's teachings were based is removed from the human, hypnotic self-will.
The headmaster of Eton, and the author of the pamphlet to which Canon Lyttelton's endorsement in the preface alone lends any significance, have been guilty of an indiscretion.
Once,
while reading the twentieth chapter of Exodus, I was struck by the narrowness of the limit within which most people confine the meaning of the third commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
