If the reverend critic has something better to offer, a hungry world is waiting for that very thing, but experience has shown that no great religious movement was ever advanced by virulent attacks on the real or supposed beliefs of others, instead of a Christianly, dignified exposition of one's own belief.
It is interesting to note from a recent New York despatch published by your paper that the leading psychologists, clergymen, and physicians are endeavoring to discover how much of Christian Science they can with propriety adopt in their practice.
When the term healing is used in Christian Science, it must be remembered that it is applied equally to the destruction of all that is unlike God, whether sickness or disease, pain or emotional ecstasy, sorrow or despair, misery, want, or sin.
The Church to-day is exceedingly unfortunate in the interpretations of the ages of theological expressions from which they cannot free themselves, and the definition of words of necessary use, making it almost impossible to read into them now their real meaning as used from the modern pulpit.
The attack on Christian Scientists, their Leader and belief, by a minister of this city, is regrettable as showing the intolerance of the orthodox clergy toward another denomination.
It has probably been the experience of almost every doctor of to-day to be asked by his patients for his opinion of Christian Science as a healing agency, and one would not be far wrong in saying that the fact that Christian Science practitioners do not consider it necessary to use the stethoscope and thermometer and other means of ascertaining the actual physical condition which they propose to relieve, is considered by the majority of doctors to be a full and sufficient reason for declaring that the cures cannot be genuine.
We
are told that "the fossil forest of the Yellowstone Park is a mountain composed of layers of a greenish sandstone, containing the trunks of silicified trees," and that "shells, bones, corals, etc.
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students of Christian Science, as well as Christian people generally, make a mistake in attempting too much at the start, or rather in not rightly selecting the phase or manifestation of error over which they attempt to demonstrate at the beginning.
[A statement of the following very interesting case was sent to a popular magazine which has published the medical opinion that Christian Science has never healed any so-called organic diseases.
