When
for purely personal reasons laws are made by men, these human enactments often seem to other men to be unreasonable and arbitrary, and they are sometimes resisted.
Recently a number of leading monthly and daily journals, among them The Century, The Outlook, and the New York Times, have devoted much space to the work of some well-known clergymen in Boston and Chicago in establishing medico-religious dispensaries in connection with their churches.
Our critic takes exception to any reference to Jesus as a scientific man, and yet no doubt he would admit that the man Christ Jesus knew more than any other personage that the world has ever known, and certainly what he knew was scientific, since any definite or specific knowledge is science.
There is not the slightest doubt in the mind of the editor but that those of the Christian Science faith have something satisfying in a religious doctrine.
Christian Science accepts the undivided garment of divine healing as taught and practised by Christ Jesus and repeated in the works of his followers, but Christian Scientists do not believe that the works of Jesus and his disciples were miracles in the common, mistaken sense of the term, nor do they accept the theory that the Master or his followers, in the performance of these works of healing, violated a law of God or worked contrary to it.
It is to be regretted that your honored paper has been willing to give place in its columns to an article so unworthy and misleading as the one with the heading "Christian Science Humbug" in the issue of last Saturday.
The
beginner in Christian Science is often tempted to think that he could progress more rapidly if he were in different atmosphere, surroundings, or circumstances.
