THE
healing work of Christian Science has taken such a firm hold upon the thinking classes that the envy of opposing systems has been aroused to the utmost.
A correspondent writes as follows: "May I suggest that you call the attention of the Field to the help to be received through the study of the reprint, 'The Lesson-Sermons.
Although one may not be an adherent of the Christian Science Church, he must admit, as a matter of justice, that that institution has demonstrated in thousands of instances the helpfulness ethically to the individual of getting away from the total depravity ideal.
It is a significant sign of the times that ministers of the great Episcopal Church are publicly acknowledging that Christian Scientists "manifest more faith in the power of the Christ than many who profess to be of the true Israel of God;" that they are now admitting what Christian Science has always taught, that the whole gospel of Christ includes healing the sick as well as the sinner; and that they are urging the revival of healing in the Church as a means of preventing their communicants from seeking for it and finding it in Christian Science.
It may be of interest to your readers to know that while Christian Science repudiates the belief that evil is the outcome of God or that He permits it to exist, or makes use of it in His plan of salvation of man, nevertheless evil does exist to material sense and must be overcome and destroyed by recognizing its true nature and thereby forsaking it.
A most remarkable cure of rheumatism has come to light in this town, one which is unequaled perhaps in the history of non-remedy treatment, such as this appears to be.
In
response to an evangel so comprehensive as that of Christian Science, offering cure for every human ill whatever its kind, it is natural that men should ask relief first of all for their most insistent need ; that the sick should seek health, the maimed to be made whole, the mentally discomfited for wisdom and comfort, and the sinner to find pardon.
