As a constant reader of the Chronicle for fifteen years and a supposed "victim of suggestion," though not a member of any Christian Science body, I would like to offer a few remarks.
In a little discussion recently on the subject of Christian Science with one of the orthodox clergy, the writer was told that Jesus' followers were first to preach the gospel.
To any one who wonders how the many amazing misconceptions as to the true nature of Christian Science obtain currency, a recent issue should prove instructive.
One of the daily papers in New York which for years was bitter in its denunciations of Christian Science, said editorially last winter that Christian Science had proven itself as a religion of brotherly love, and that paper has since made no attack on Christian Science.
What constituted the gulf between Christianity and the other religions with which the early Christians were surrounded, was the fact that Jesus separated once and for all the claim of the power of the human mind to effect good or evil, from the scientific knowledge of absolute Truth as the only real existent power.
Long
ago Dean Swift wrote concerning "a creature pretending to reason that should value itself upon the knowledge of other people's conjectures and in things where that knowledge, if it were certain, could be of no use," with the ironical comment, "What destruction such doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe!" Philosophical writings are easily divisible into two classes.
