The objections which a reverend critic maintains against Christian Science seem to be based upon its departure from the teachings of the established schools of theology.
That the old-fashioned "Now I lay me" is no longer universally approved is shown in the following press dispatch which recently appeared in several daily papers.
As we understand the office of the Christian ministry, it is to teach by example and precept the highest spiritual import of the Bible, to promulgate, elucidate, and make practical the teachings of Jesus Christ; and he who falls short of this defaults in his holy mission.
What the Nebraska legislature proposes to do is not entirely clear, but the dispatches say that a bill has been reported from the committee of the whole which provides that "it shall be unlawful for any person to attempt to cure mental or physical ailments, real or imaginary, for pay, without first obtaining a license to practise the healing art from the state board of health.
Some
five years ago, adrift amidst angry waves of illness and despair, I was toiling at the oars when, in the teaching of Christian Science, Christ came walking upon the sea and there was a great calm.
The
human heart longs for ease, for present comfort of the flesh, saying within itself, that this world were quite heaven enough, could its promises be kept and its joys be made permanent.
with contributions from Charles F. Dole, J. W. Dawson, E. M. Martinson
We simply call attention to the fact that this "peace of justice," quick to avenge insults, which makes a strong nation at once the judge and jury and executioner in its own suit, and spends more on the machinery of military force than on all measures of public service combined, is not the kind of peace for which Christmas Day is set to remind us.
"If the courts listen to the devotees of any given school of physicians, nothing short of the services of such a physician will answer the requirements of the law.
The health department of Chicago was not established primarily to frighten people to death, and perhaps that is not its present intention, but the effects of its germ bulletins upon sensitive natures must be exceedingly shocking.