The substantial growth of Christian Science during the past forty years can be attributed to the fact that it is a religion of works—one with "signs following.
The real reason why there are so many followers of Christian Science is that it has turned people back to the study and spiritual meaning of the Bible, and enabled them to prove the possibility today of its practical application to all the problems of human existence.
The Christian Science Lesson-Sermons, to which a correspondent has referred in uncomplimentary terms, are compiled by a committee selected especially for the purpose, and embrace twenty-six different subjects.
A false statement is made by our critic, who asserts that Christian Science "really denies the divinity of Christ, the chief corner-stone of the whole structure of Christianity.
There may have been a time when some people accepted without question the sweeping statement that Christian Science does not heal; there may have been a time also when some people believed that Christian Science could not destroy sin; there may have been a time, even, when some people believed that Christian Scientists had so little faith in God as to believe omnipotence to be helpless on some occasions,—but that time has long since passed.
The evangelist who preached in your city ignored the remarkable benefit that Christian Science has been to the world in reinstating primitive spiritual healing and the understanding of "the deep things of God" which the study of Science and Health in connection with the Bible makes available for the student.
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novice in Christian Science often wonders why he has so much error to overcome when he is striving to live in accordance with its teachings; indeed it may sometimes seem that the errors and false beliefs manifest as sin, sickness, and limitation, which were supposedly overcome, reappear even more frequently than before.
