When our critic challenges Christian Scientists to swallow poison, he places himself on the same plane as the devil when he challenged Jesus to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple; and Christian Scientists are following the example of the Master when they decline the invitation.
Jesus of Nazareth was an honest man who had a perfect conception of the message that he was to deliver to the world, and in no case did he fail in the performance of this duty.
The attack of an Eastern clergyman upon Christian Scientists, must cause the dispassionate thinking reader to wonder how one claiming to be a follower of the Christ could be able to reconcile such statements with the teaching he professes to believe.
Christian Science declares that it is man's rightful heritage to have health, joy, and abundance; that he must have all that is good if he realizes and demonstrates his "sonship with the Father.
Christian Scientists are gratified at the somewhat tardy recognition of the fact that Christian healing is an essential of the Christian religion, and this same recognition though tardy is a justification of the efforts which they have made during the past forty years.
Christian Science is the religion of Jesus, and accomplishes its healing and redemptive work in the same manner and by the same method employed by Jesus and his disciples.
The writer, non-sectarian in his religious belief, has perused with much interest and with no little indignation the criticism of a clergyman anent a brother pastor, which appeared in yesterday's issue of the Journal, also the annexed unchristianlike attack upon Mrs.
That
many of the favorite passages of Scripture are capable of much clearer statement and purer interpretation than that given by the English text, was very forcibly brought to the writer's attention some weeks ago.
The
thought has been expressed by some prejudiced persons, that Christian Science is intended only for the rich, and that the poor have no place in its churches.
