To the Christian Scientist it is quite clear that God, being infinite, omnipotent, and omniscient, the author, the creator of all that is, could not create or permit that which is absolutely unlike himself.
When
two people who know no common language try to express their ideas to each other, their means of conveying thought are limited to signs, gestures, and facial expressions, and only in modest degree can they grasp each other's meanings.
Apart
from the many in this country who have found in Christian Science, health, happiness, and peace, its progress has reached the stage when not only have most people heard something of its healing work, but many have come to recognize that they are confronted with phenomena not easily to be explained away, whatever the supposed power behind may be.
A critic insinuates that Christian Science cures only imaginary trouble, or hypochondria, but neglects to add to his assertion that the same troubles which are healed by Christian Science had been treated for years by reputable physicians who had diagnosed them as being “real” and had been doctoring them with “real” medicine.
The first fact which startles the British insular intelligence respecting Christian Science in America, is the general tolerance that obtains towards it here.
