Years
ago, in the American church in Constantinople, that grand hymn, "Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war," was sung by the congregation with such a true spirit that it rang out through the streets of Constantinople, and the Mohammedans gathered in knots and listened.
This
brief sketch of a very trying personal experience has been written with the hope that it may prove to be of interest and perhaps helpful to some of the readers of the Christian Science Sentinel.
Our critic's argument that drugs are created by God for man's benefit, seems to be rather faulty in view of the fact that, according to the Gospel record, Christ Jesus, who came to do the will of God, did not use drugs in healing the sick, and did not recommend them to his disciples and followers.
As to our critic's main argument, may I explain, once more, that I have no objection whatever to his applying the word miracle to cases of Christian Science healing, if he will use it in the true sense of the Greek words, so translated, in the New Testament, or even in the sense in which the Latin word was used by the pagan philosophers.
After reading in a recent issue of the Chronicle of the attack on Christian Science by a doctor of divinity, I desire to state a few facts and ask a few questions in their defense.
Probably a great many newspaper readers—and certainly the vast majority of those who are addicted to the reading of sensational newspapers—will be surprised to learn that in their reading they have a public duty to perform.
When
I first began to read Science and Health, and attempted to think along Christian Science lines, there seemed to be a sharp conflict between all that I had previously been taught and believed, and the teachings of Christian Science.
