Some
years ago, when walking with a cousin down the main street of our village, we saw two ragged little children standing on tiptoe, gazing longingly into the window of a small jeweler's shop.
"A bruised
reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench," wrote the prophet Isaiah of the coming Messiah; adding, by way of contrast, "he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Apropos the pending triangular religious controversy between three reverend doctors, possibly the views of the ordinary layman might aid in squaring the issue; more especially, too, from the fact that any bias or theological erudition is disclaimed.
A contributor to the Journal's columns recently expressed the opinion that Christian Science teaches its followers to believe disease can be overcome "by just thinking you are well.
In a recent issue of The News, an address given at the Propylæum, on "The Secret and Law of Suggestion in Child Training," is reported, in which there is an undoubted intention to be kind to Christian Science; but it is liable to confuse your readers, and I shall appreciate the opportunity to make a brief statement of what Christian Science teaches.
Our critic asserts that it is not through personal antagomism that he is impelled to take up the discussion of Christian Science, but that he is actuated only by a sense of "duty to stand up for Christ and his gospel.
I cannot help feeling that the clergyman who complains of my not replying to all the statements he made as to the practice of Christian Science, is somewhat inconsistent.
While
reading in one of our Lesson-Sermons these words of Paul, "Rejoice in the Lord alway," I was reminded of an experience which occurred some two years since.
