Those
who attend the Christian Science services will note that the sacrament is observed without the material elements of bread and wine which are used in most of the other Christian churches.
Recently
we called attention to an editorial criticism by the New York World of an address delivered by a physician before a section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which the speaker was quoted as saying that "when a man of active affairs feels an exuberance of health, and is able to accomplish a greatly increased amount of work without sense of fatigue, he is in danger and should consult a physician.
The
human mind has always regarded spiritual things as mysterious, and this fact receives due consideration from prophets, apostles, and Christ Jesus himself.
Nothing
could be more definite or more inclusive than the requirement of the first commandment of the decalogue, and nothing more manifest or more lamentable than the universality of mankind's disobedience thereto.
There
is a natural desire on the part of the majority of the beneficiaries of Christian Science to understand why and how it is that they have been healed, even after materia medica has pronounced them hopeless or incurable.
Throughout
Jesus' earthly ministry as set forth in the gospels, we find that his chief appeal to those around him was that they should accept eternal life.
Notwithstanding
the fact that a very large portion of the New Testament is given over to the account of our Master's work in healing the sick, the one point upon which many critics of Christian Science base their objection to this religion is that its followers profess to heal the sick by the same means which Christ Jesus employed.
The
emphasis which Jesus laid upon the healing of the sick begets the inference that he attached a value to this feature of his ministry which many of his professed followers seem indisposed to recognize.
Generally
speaking, men are most reserved about believing in that which is most foreign to experience, and this is especially true if the statement or event brings into question the religious opinions they and their fathers have always accepted as true.
