Many
of the important labor-saving devices which aid in the spread of civilization and add to the comfort of human life, were in their early forms crude cumbrous machines of relatively low efficiency.
It
has been said that the assertion that there are people living to-day who can heal the sick in the same manner as Jesus and the apostles healed, savors strongly of presumption, and there is a tendency to regard with some measure of suspicion those who make this claim either for themselves or others.
In
the 1907 second revised edition of our text-book, Science and Health, some changes have been made in the line numbers since the Quarterly for February, March was prepared.
Jesus said he would build his church upon the acknowledgment of his Messiahship, as voiced by Peter; and his Messiahship rested upon the works that he did,—not upon a theological platform, for he had none.
The letter in which our critic announces his intention of withdrawing from the discussion is, I regret to say, a restatement of a line of argument which I have shown to be untenable, being briefly as follows:—
Our critic's assertion that "the particular error which makes sin, sickness, and the physical universe mere delusions of the human mind, was never revealed by God to Mrs.
