Our reverend critic devotes most of his sermon to the plea that an effort be made for the same "works" to be accomplished by the followers of the Master to-day as when he himself preached the gospel and healed the sick, two thousand years ago.
Christian Science teaches that all "reality" is of God, Spirit; that, therefore, the spiritual is the real, and that the material and its accredited phenomena are the unreal.
A reverend critic says that "Christian Science denies the atoning sacrifice of Christ for sin; that it teaches disobedience to Christ's commandments to repent and to preach the gospel of salvation to the lost everywhere.
To
estimate aright the meaning of the word possible as used in chapter 19 of the Gospel of Matthew, and on page I of our text-book, we must divest thought of the meaning attached to the word by human sense.
It
is doubtful if among the thousands of worshipers in the Christian Science churches one person could be found who believes, as did some of our Puritan ancestors, that music is out of place in a church service.
The
article "A Real Investment," in a recent number of the Sentinel, came as a timely rebuke to me,—even though I had already made two contributions to the Publishing House fund,—for I had thought, "Well, I've given all I had for that purpose; my money is certainly needed in other directions, and I can do no more.
In
the business world the term "snap judgment" very aptly defines one of the striking characteristics of the human mind; namely, an alertness in censuring any one and every one who differs in thought or action from the individual's point of view.
The criticism in question, like a vast majority of the same nature, touches lightly on several aspects of Christian Science before proceeding to its main generalization.
