In order to point out the position of Christian Science with reference to the treatment of disease, I would like by way of introduction to ask this question: "Does matter or Mind do the thinking?
Our critic admits the power of mind upon the body, but undertakes to depreciate and ridicule the teachings of Christian Science on the ground that they are not new.
In a recent issue you published a despatch from Baltimore containing the statement that two medical students of that city have announced the fact that they "are perfectly willing, in order to demonstrate the fallacy of the doctrines of Christian Scientists, to allow themselves to be inoculated with a pure tested culture of streptococcus pyogenes, provided any two followers of the faith do the same.
While
studying a recent Lesson-Sermon I was much struck with the prayer used by Jesus in the raising of Lazarus; when he said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
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.
