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present writer conceives the first testimonial meetings, held in the early days of Christian Science teaching and experience, to have been the spontaneous gathering of those persons who had "heard" the word and those who wished to hear, for the purpose of testifying to "the healing and regenerating power" of Truth which some of them had actually experienced and others had observed.
It must be remembered that every citizen has the right to choose the physician or system of healing he desires, and is perfectly justified in objecting to any authority on the part of the state or city to force upon him or his children the attendance or advice of a specified physician or system of medicine.
Christian Science and Christianity are one, and the teaching of Christian Science, which is scientific Christianity, is distinctive, and there is no religion or philosophy that can be combined with it, as it presents itself as one complete whole.
That the embers of religious intolerance have not altogether died out in our midst is evidenced by articles which have appeared in a religious periodical published in Dayton, O.
It is a favorite pastime with some of the clergy who think themselves opposed to Christian Science, to make reckless assertions concerning its teaching, taking it for granted that the public will accept them unquestioningly, on account of the source from which they emanate.
Christian Science recognizes that to the human sense of things, pain, poverty, disease, and death seem very real, but they also recognize clearly that the Christian religion as explained in Christian Science includes the panacea for all these ills, an adequate and satisfactory means by which they may be overcome.
Agreeing with our critic's premise that in Christian Science there is no room for evil, it logically follows that an evilly disposed person claiming to be a Christian Scientist could find no abiding-place in the Christian Science church.
