Our critic begins his attack with the declaration that muddle in material affairs is bad enough, but that muddle in religion is a thousand times worse, and he goes on from this to labor the point that Christian Science has created a muddle in religion.
When
a so-called new and redemptive truth at first declares its message to the world, it is often classed with the very evils it has come to destroy, and finds its enemies among those whom its mission is to save.
In
times past there may have been a temptation to criticize some one whose testimony did not conform to the listener's condition of thought, but as we progress in the understanding of Christian Science, we come more and more to realize that even a word of some testimony may be as "living bread" to a hungry heart.
Perhaps
one of the first things a young student in Christian Science is inspired to think about is the difference between the thing called "love" in the worldly sense and that known as "love" in Christian Science.
It
is a significant sign of the times that there is at present a very urgent public demand for pure food, and that diligent investigation is being made, with a view to preventing the evils of food adulteration and that a higher standard of purity may be established.
The great trouble with most of those who criticize Christian Science is that they not only do not have any understanding of its teaching, but what is even sadder, they do not understand their own Bible.
