Among
the many indictments named against Christian Science by its critics, one that we most frequently come upon is that of inconsistency in the practical application of its faith.
This is a doctrine that needs to be emplasized again and again with increasing energy in these days when many things that are purely material and worldly in their sources and tendencies are absorbing the attention of young men and women to the exclusion of the more important and vital things that make for high and worthy character and for helpful and beneficent life.
The objection that in the treatment of children Christian Scientists "throw away what is certain for what is at least uncertain," cannot be substantiated, for there is no evidence that any material remedy is "certain" to cure in every case, and much testimony to the contrary; while skepticism and denial cannot change the fact that Christian Science does heal.
