In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

KEEPING SILENCE BEFORE GOD

The mission of Christian Science is to silence material belief and will-power, and to prove thereby "the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick".

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[The Congregationalist.
Our critic commits a very common error in assuming that poverty.
Christian Science consistently sticks to its premise, viz.
Does Christian Science come within the protection of the laws of our land?
To the Christian Scientist, the Christian Science movement is the effort to restore primitive Christianity, and by primitive Christianity I mean to a large extent that absolute unity of faith and demonstration spoken of by James, when he said, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
The Christian Science movement is destined to grow and prosper.
The writer must confess to no small degree of surprise at having read in a recent issue of the Californian of this city a brief article in which Christian Scientists are referred to as the subjects of a "delusion, or illusion, or craze;" and especially this statement of that editor's opinion: "We believe about fifty per cent of the Christian Scientists are mentally unsound.
In her lecture on this subject a critic says, "What is done by Christian Science can be accomplished by other methods.
The final words of our Saviour, as recorded in the closing chapter of Mark's Gospel, verses 15 to 18, cannot be separated, and I ask why our clergy do not fulfil the Scriptures and heal the sick, the same as the disciples did after his ascension, and as, according to history, their followers continued to do until about the end of the third century.
Can we, at this hour, with all we have seen and heard of the "signs following," doubt the healing power of Mind—God?
Our critic will be glad to know that Christian Science is doing the healing works which he challenges it to perform, and without suggestion, and if he is earnestly in quest of the proofs he will not have far to seek.