In a recent issue of The News Tribune, an English writer is credited with a sharp criticism of what he is pleased to state is the teaching of Christian Science.
The headline, "Church's Duty not Healing of Body," in the Inquirer some days ago, virtually threw down the gauntlet to all Christians on the question of religious healing.
If Christian Science should seem obscure to some who have not grasped its propositions with sufficient understanding to demonstrate them, they should remember that the gospel of Christ, and him crucified, was to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness; yet that gospel has been the most potent force for good the world has ever seen.
When Christian Science states that sin, disease, and matter are unreal, it is equivalent to affirming that they are temporal and destructible, the phenomena of our present material sense of that "heaven and earth" which Jesus said should "pass away.
From
Genesis to Revelation are scattered exhortations to mankind to "serve God;" and there can be no doubt as to the duty of all Christians to obey the command.
In
Exodus we read that when God commanded Moses to go to Pharaoh and ask him to let the children of Israel go, He said, "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say;" and in the prophecy of Isaiah we read, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together: and a little child shall lead them.
