In view of the fact that so many people honestly fail to understand just why Christian Scientists have more faith in Christian Science than in medical treatment, I feel sure that the readers of your valuable paper will be interested in a brief statement of their position.
Christian Scientists understand that sin and disease exist only in the false material sense of things; they seem real, but they are not facts, because God never made them; if they were real they could never be destroyed, for a real thing is an eternal thing and is incapable of destruction.
A few
days since a trifling incident brought to my consciousness a childhood thought which the years had not wholly obliterated, and from which I am learning valuable lessons.
The Haverhill Gazette points out the absurdity of the proposed attempt to legislate against the practice of Christian Science healing; absurd because such matters are not regulated by force, but by reason.
The
illusive nature of sense testimony is illustrated in the following incidents: One morning a man was driving a cow into the stable, in which there happened to be at the time considerable dust.