When
Christian Scientists reflect upon what was a mere existence and compare it with the fuller life of joy and peace that they now know, they can but remember our Master's promise, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever," and realize the truth of our Leader's words, "This Comforter I understand to be divine Science".
"Commit
thy way unto the Lord," said the psalmist, and these words were quoted to the writer after she had attempted many times to commit her ways unto personality.
Nothing is more foreign to the teaching and practice of Christian Science than the endeavor to use it in the acquirement of any material thing, as such.
In reply to a recent article in which Christian Scientists are criticized in connection with arguments made for the establishment of a national department of health, permit me to say that Christian Scientists are working just as intelligently and effectively to prevent and cure disease as any other class of people, and that this statement is provable.
Christian Science and methods which seek to combine drugs and prayer are not only not akin, philosophically or otherwise, but they bear no resemblance to each other in any important particular.
Inasmuch as there is hardly an individual in any community who has not at least one friend that has experienced the benefits of Christian Science and become a "believer," it is indeed a surprise that a clergyman, whose duty it is to bring to suffering humanity the salvation taught and practised by our Master, should make the statements of our critic.
