One of the most common objections made to Christian Science is, that it cannot be a spiritual system because it is so largely concerned with the healing of the body.
In my last article I said, "It is not recorded that Jesus ever authorized anybody to preach that he did not immediately couple with the commission an injunction to heal the sick.
One
of our Lord's greatest utterances is found in the 3d chapter of John's Gospel, where he says to Nicodemus, "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
During
the past few months the equal suffrage question has been unusually to the fore in this country, due in a measure, perhaps, to the propaganda carried on by visiting suffragists from abroad, where, largely because of vigorous governmental opposition, the campaign is waged with somewhat more of aggressiveness than obtains here.
Long
ago the prophet Isaiah wrote: "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" The Christian Science Publishing Society, which has been established in Boston in connection with the other activities of the Christian Science movement, is an open doorway for a salvation of mighty import and of far-reaching influence.
The gentleman who is discussing Christian Science in your columns begins his article by venturing the prophecy that Christian Science "will never become popular—never become the religion of the common people.
We would like to ask our critic if he considers the Mind which was in Christ to be too extreme when this Mind healed all manner of sickness, raised the dead, and cast out all the errors of the human mind with the word of Truth.
Christian Science teaches that in the realm of ever-present Spirit there is no sin; and so does the Bible, as for instance in the text, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God;" but sin is very real to one who indulges in it thinking he finds pleasure therein.
Our critic's assumption that the Christian Scientist in the treatment of the sick is entirely without discrimination as to differing types of disease, and, as he puts it, sees no "difference between smallpox and pimples," is hardly warranted by the facts.
