A Canadian jury has brought in a verdict of criminal conspiracy against four Christian Scientists who conspired to deprive one William Goodfellow of "the necessaries of life, to wit: proper medicine and nursing, whereby death was caused.
Alfred Farlow
with contributions from Robert Louis Stevenson
A careful examination of Scriptural teaching will be convincing that in their theory Christian Scientists are no farther in advance of their practices than are other Christians who believe the Bible, and who endorse such declarations as the following: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Christian Science claims that God is everything that the inspired statements of the Bible and the teachings and life of Jesus reveal Him to be; that He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient Spirit; that He is Love; that He is Life; that He is the source of every good and perfect blessing; that He is "good and very good;" that He is "All in all.
The
force and beauty of the literary diction and structure in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker G.
Denouncers of Christian Science will have some food for thought in the report from the United States pension office to the effect that a large number of pensioners have lately been giving up their pensions, claiming that they have been healed of their physical disabilities by Christian Science.