It must early strike even the superficial reader of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with what a wealth of metaphor and illustration its statement of truth is made—a statement which its author, Mrs.
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divine demand, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," calls forth the inquiry, Is there a scientific or exact knowledge of man?
In saying that "Christian Science can never expect to have the same treatment accorded it as can be to the ordinary Christian churches of other denominations," I think our critic is mistaken.
One mistakes the teaching of Christian Science who calculates that its modus operandi is a mere wordy denial of sin and disease, and an affirmation of health and life.
If Christian Science had no more merit than the person representing himself as a doctor in your issue of the 15th professes to believe, you would not be asked to publish attacks upon it, for it would have ceased to attract public attention long ago.
Christian Science is not asking humanity to accept anything which it cannot demonstrate for itself, and consquently, more than any religion since the days of Paul, it relies on the great saying of the apostle, "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The healing agency employed in Christian Science is a spiritual understanding of the allness of God and the consequent realization of the unreality of all that is unlike Him.
