In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

After dinner and a brief siesta, I went to May's Opera House to attend a Christian Science lecture by Mr.
A few critics seem to have a belief that Christian Science proposes to add something new to the Bible; that Mrs.
There are always three stages in the development of any and every system which has its base on Truth, or any section thereof: First, that of bitter opposition; second, parleying with its exponents because of the truth it contains; and third, acceptance of its fundamentals.
Christian Scientists have such faith and confidence in the promises of Christ Jesus that they prefer to rely upon them rather than material remedies; they prefer to trust God and the promises of the Master.
Christian Science recognizes squarely that to the suffering sense of the patient the disease with which he is afflicted is quite real and patent; but it denies its reality as a God-created entity or that it exists in consonance with the law of God, the law of which Christ Jesus said, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mankind has heard enough of theory, dogma, and creed, and the thought of humanity is rapidly turning towards a more practical and satisfactory message of hope and salvation than its past experience has grasped.
Our critic is confusing the absolute with the relative, in exactly the same way in which Pilate, according to one of the greatest scholars and theologians the Church of England has ever known, did in his ever repeated question, "What is truth?
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.

THE OPENING VOLUNTARY

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.