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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The
little "honest confession of the soul," "Our Debt to Christian Science," which I took the liberty to make some time ago in the Westminster, a Presbyterian weekly published in Philadelphia, it is needless to say has called forth all kinds of criticism and comment.
