So fixed in the thought of the ancients was the mental picture of a flat earth, that their mistaken theory of the solar system passed unchallenged in the face of indications which, to the more enlightened sense of today, enforce an altogether different conclusion.
In the September Christian Science Journal nearly one hundred pages are given up to a list of Christian Science churches and societies, and of practitioners, all over the world.
The recent sermon by Elder—on the subject of Christian Science indicates that while the gentleman expresses a desire to be fair in his criticisms, he is not as familiar with the teachings of this religion as one should be to discuss them intelligently.
The clergyman's assertion that "Christian Science has stumbled upon a great health-producing principle, with no more idea than the man in the moon how it got there," means simply that he has failed to comprehend how it got there.
A recent correspondent expressed the opinion that Christian Science had a very limited sense of God's goodness, in that it failed to recognize what he declared to be plain to himself and others, namely, divine wisdom in the permission of sin, with the purpose of making goodness more apparent.
One
day, while thinking of the wondrous work and scope of Christian Science, it came to me suddenly that, in order to demonstrate its teachings more fully in daily life, every claim made by the corporeal senses, in their effort to manifest and maintain the belief of either pleasure or pain in the body, must be quickly detected and denied.
There
seems to be in the thought of many parents a latent conviction that their sons must pass through a period in which youthful follies are to be indulged and "wild oats" sown.
