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is sometimes said that Christian Science came as a protest against certain failures of the churches and materia medica, and that like all protests it goes too far.
A critic is recently reported to have stated that the principal faults that he had to find in the Christian Science doctrine were the denial of Christ's atonement, that heaven is not a place and has no location, and the disbelief in the resurrection.
It is easy to say that "Christian Science is false," but when the truth of its teachings is being demonstrated daily in healing the sick and reforming the sinner, as Christ Jesus said his disciples should do, it will require more than a mere assertion to convince thinking people that it is not the truth.
Discussing the phenomenon of miracles from a standpoint which is neither that of Christian Science nor orthodox theology, Matthew Arnold laid stress on what is termed the "moral therapeutics" of Jesus.
