Our critic's attempt to explain why so many people have espoused Christian Science evokes a smile when one knows the class of men and women who have been attracted to it.
It is a poor form of reasoning to attack one's belief and characterize it as "blasphemous," "idiotic," "hysterical," and an insult to the intelligence of reasoning people, because that peculiar form may not agree with ours.
In a review, under the heading "A Medieval Journey to Jerusalem," in your issue of late date, there is a statement of the Christian Science teaching with respect to evil which is so crude as to be positively misleading.
Christian Science teaches that the veil of illusion which to mortal sense seems to obscure God and His perfect creation has been woven by ignorance, materiality, and sinfulness, and will be removed and is being removed by the spiritual appearing of Christ.
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have been accustomed to regard the pathetic resignation of the human will to the divine which Jesus expressed in the garden of Gethsemane, as a phase of thought most difficult to enter into, but upon giving the matter serious consideration, we find this, like many of our other preconceived ideas, to be entirely false concept of the prayer, that instead of being the most exacting, it is really the easiest and most natural petition to offer.
