The tendency to unite, now manifest in many religious bodies, is wholesome; but it will not reach the highest order of spiritual progress so long as anything but essential truth is the centre of attraction.
The point the Miner wishes emphatically to make is — that if any man believes Christian Science is a healing power that will heal, then we deny the right of any one to say he shall not believe in it, and practise it if he chooses.
While no Christian Scientist claims to be perfect, every one who has been honestly striving, can say he is a better man in thought and deed than before accepting Christian Science.
Confessing ignorance of the teachings and workings of Christian Science, we cannot help feeling that a belief which can attract and hold some of the brightest minds of the century, must contain some elements of truth; and the cures effected in our own community, which are claimed as the result of its work, convince us that the movement should not be condemned without intelligent investigation.
A mathematician, correcting the errors in a mathematical problem for his pupil, is conveying a true idea to him which destroys his erroneous concept of the problem, and thus frees him from these errors.
The reasoning of Christian Science appears "fallacious" only to those who refuse to "compare spiritual things with spiritual," preferring to accept the fleeting, changing, and unreliable testimony of the physical senses rather than credit the Scriptural verities, against which "the flesh" and its senses "lusteth.
