Our critic states that the "Christian religion was built upon Christ," and leads his hearers to believe that Christian Science rejects the teaching of Christ, whereas every student of Christian Science accepts Christ as "the way, the truth, and the life.
You are to be commended for the very fine report published in your columns of the lecture recently delivered in the Melbourne town hall on Christian Science.
A recent issue contains a paragraph entitled "Mental Healing," in which psychotherapy and Christian Science are spoken of as nearly related to one another.
If the reverend gentleman, our critic, had made even a fair investigation of Christian Science, he would see that it is the exact opposite of hypnotism, alias malicious animal magnetism, and that it has no more relationship or likeness to it than the wonders wrought by Moses had to the necromancy of the magicians.
Perhaps you will allow one who is not a member of the Christian Science body, but who has occasionally attended their services in Blackburn, to give a brief account of his impressions and experiences.
A recent
author, who is gifted above the ordinary with the vision of faith, points out the difficulty we experience in speaking freely of those things about which we feel most deeply, while "at the same time it is the deepest feeling which most persistently urges to self-expression.
A common
misunderstanding in regard to the teachings of Christian Science, and one which its students are often called upon to correct, is with regard to Christ Jesus as a Saviour.
