We cite our readers to the Christian Science text-book, not as an interpretation of Scripture to be accepted by all without question or proof, but as being the only safe and authentic source of information on the subject of Christian Science, before judgment is essayed.
In answer to "M," as is well known, very divergent views concerning baptism and the holy communion are held in the different Christian churches, and even by members of the same church.
There are those who say that Christian Science does not heal, or that it heals only functional and nervous disorders, but there are thousands of competent witnesses, as competent as any that testified to Jesus' healing works, who are telling the people from their own personal experience of the healing; that it does heal, and has healed every form of disease known to the medical profession.
Our critic remarks in a sort of parenthesis that a magazine has been brought to her notice which discusses healing without the introduction of the "irritating name of Mrs.
Sufficient
advice concerning the Wednesday evening service in Christian Science churches has been given to the Field through our publications, to have brought about ere now a well-nigh faultless testimony meeting, had this advice been heeded.
Christian Scientists
are sometimes deemed narrow-minded because they are not more hospitable toward differing forms of religious and philosophical belief.
The
Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and author of its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," passed away at 10.