If the pastor of any one of the thirty-five churches in this vicinity should take the position in his pulpit that the healing of the body would one day be one of the distinct departments of church work, his position would be regarded as little short of revolutionary.
One of the main stumbling-blocks to our critic is the fact that Christian Science holds to the unreality of sickness, sin, matter, mortal mind and mortal bodies.
The
scientific sense of the healing recorded in the fifth chapter of Mark which has come to me in the measure of my present understanding of Christian Science, I trust may prove as valuable to some one else in the healing of mental disease as it has been to me.