IF
your friend is indeed a thinker—eyes open and alert—and has a heart yearning for religious insight; if he has come among the Christian Scientists honestly seeking spiritual food and facts, he should find:—
WE
are all familiar with the thought that a correct application of the rules of Christian Science is as accurate in result as a correct application of the rules of the science of mathematics.
THE
beneficent work of Christian Science is thoroughly known and recognized in the lines of physical healing, moral reformation, and spiritual quickening and illumination.
One of the tenets of the Christian Science Church is as follows: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure".
Christian Scientists emulate the Master and obey his commandments, but our critic unreasonably demands of Christian Scientists the very ultimate in point of demonstration, without even stopping to take into consideration present approximations thereto.
In your report of a sermon delivered last Sunday morning [April 26], the minister brings out the statement that "in spite of the claims of Christian Scientists that all forms of physical suffering are amenable to the will of the individual," people still die.
In a recent issue of The Free Press a clergyman expressed grave misapprehension of the teaching of Christian Science on the subject of healing, and I ask an opportunity to clear up some points at issue.
Christ Jesus was the great demonstrator of the ever-present availability of God for the full salvation of mortals from sin, disease, and even from death, "the last enemy that shall be destroyed.
It is not an extravagant assumption that those who are daily and hourly practising a definite teaching are probably quite as good judges of what that teaching is as those who are not.
