The
familiar saying, that "man's extremity is God's opportunity," expresses a truth which should stimulate mankind to a livelier examination of their position and their mental conditions.
A clerical critic says, "If religion is capable of healing the infirmities of the body, then religion is science, in so far at least as its relation to the human organism is concerned; and more than that, it is healing and healer combined.
Christian Science affirms that the only indestructible eternal essence is good, and that to seek to impose upon mankind the necessity of believing in the actual existence of a rival and hostile power is the strangest disservice that can be attempted in the name of him who came to destroy, for humanity in distress, the devil and all his works.
As the statements of Christian teaching are understood, it will be acknowledged by the honest and earnest follower of Christ that the theology and philosophy of Christian Science is as perfect in its simplicity as the Science of Christianity is exact and invariable in its Principle and rules.
If there were nothing to be considered in the treatment of children by Christian Science but the argument of those whose knowledge of the system had been learned only by hearsay or by superficial reading or theory, the talk of our critic might be taken seriously.
