AFTER
becoming a student of Christian Science, the subject of joining The Mother Church in Boston was brought to the writer's notice, and she well remembers that at first she thought lightly of that privilege, partly owing, perhaps, to the fact that in the church to which she formerly belonged, infant baptism was considered the seal of membership.
As
theological scholars recognize their essential oneness notwithstanding differing denominational names and deep differences of judgment as to important matters— because of their unity in purpose, spirit, and method, so will the Church come to an increasing unity — not because of compromises in dogma and polity, but because of the increasing sense of a vital oneness in purpose and in method.
The Christian Science people must be given credit for a sincere desire to more truly reflect the life, precepts, and works of the blessed Master than any other church has done these nineteen hundred years.
While it may be true that Jesus did not state specifically that sickness is unreal, it may also be said that he never made the positive assertion that sickness is a reality.
Christian Science is mathematically demonstrable, but it does not necessarily follow that every student is a master Scientist and capable of solving every problem.
All sects and creeds can show by the Bible a foundation for what they believe, and I here give one passage that seems to me to favor Christian Science: "Is any sick among you?
