Christian Science teaches implicit obedience to the commandments of Christ Jesus, the necessity of becoming as a little child; innocence, humility, and obedience; yes, more, holiness.
The question has been asked by a critic, why Christian Scientists do not start a hospital for demonstrating Christian Science healing on a large scale.
That Christian Science heals only that class of diseases which the medical profession considers due to hysteria, as claimed in an article in a recent issue of this paper, is a very old theory, and one which has been used over and over by those who have attempted to discredit Christian Science healing.
There has of late swept through the country a small tornado of exaggerated and delirious language in reference to Christian Science, and congresses, and congregations have sat and listened while the enormities of Christian Scientist have been expatiated upon and sometimes gloated over.
That the sharp line existing between Christian Science teaching and practice and other systems of mental healing may be defined to your readers, I ask your indulgence to explain it.
As Christian Scientist, we deem it a privilege to do any helpful thing for another, and many of us are in the attitude of seeking out ways and means for such helpfulness.
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learn in Christian Science that man is the reflection of God, and all that he is and all that he has, in reality, he has by virtue of spiritual reflection of the one infinite source of being.
