No one objects to the healing of sin by spiritual means alone, for the forgiveness of the sinner is the foundational belief of all Christian religions; and this result is sought without recourse to human devices or material aids.
Much
as an improved standard of medical education is to be desired, anything in the way of restrictive legislation to this end savors both of protecting people against their own voluntary acts and of fostering monopoly.
In
attempting to discredit Christian Science, your correspondent groups it with theosophy and the religions of the Orient, and while it is not the intent of this article to depreciate the highest sense of good entertained by any individual, yet the classification of Christian Science with these religions is manifestly unjust, as even their own adherents regard them more as philosophies than religions.
The
generous commendation bestowed on Christian Science by "Reasoner," in a late issue of the Examiner, and the willingness on his part to recognize the vast amount of good which has resulted from the practice of this teaching, speaks well for his fairness.
If you let a single ray of light through the shutter, it will go on diffusing itself without limit till it enlightens the world; but the shadow that was never so wide at first, as rapidly contracts till it comes to naught.
Gazing
out of the window of the Century Building just above the arched entrance of massive rock masonry, fixed and unchangeable in its entirety, I saw its reflection in the window of the building opposite.
Willard S. Mattox
with contributions from Albert E. Miller
The prayer of enlightened faith, by which Christian Science heals, is the prayer which understands or realizes that all good is already accomplished, and that God has never willed that man should be sick, or that he should be a sinner.
