When
I first learned of Christian Science, and had myself been healed in a few treatments, its teachings seemed very lovely and good to me, as I heard them expressed in the testimony meetings.
Young
students of Christian Science frequently question how it is that after coming into Science easily, and apparently making splendid headway, they once more find themselves confronted with the same problem which had troubled them before meeting with Science.
The
promises of the Bible take to themselves new meaning and new certainty, in the light of Christian Science, because Science brings the declaration and demonstration that all God's work is done according to law, and that the unfailing good which flows from the divine source does not come as the manifestation of personal favor, but of changeless divine Principle.
Without wishing to enter into any discussion of our critic's claim that hypnotism is a "fake," I would like to deny his assertion that hypnotism is the Christian Science "bogie.
Our critic advances certain objections to the acceptance of Christian Science without apparently realizing that these objections must have occurred to every Christian Scientist when they began to interest themselves in its teachings.
The astonishing growth of the Christian Science churches and the attendant comparative falling off in the growth of other orthodox church membership have led the other churches—notably the Methodists and Episcopalians—to adopt into their church system a mental healing feature.
