To the student of Christian Science who is desirous of gaining a thorough understanding of its fundamental truths, the question of class teaching sooner or later presents itself, and it may be helpful to those whose interest in Christian Science is a comparatively recent one, to know that such teaching had Mrs.
In
the early days of the Christian Science movement, the truths so fearlessly set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," naturally enough, because so distinct from the accepted orthodox teaching and practise of centuries past, aroused a storm of criticism from the clerical and the medical professions, with the press as a common vehicle; criticisms which, as Mrs.
Three and a half years ago the Board of Directors of The Mother Church requested Bicknell Young, as a member of the board of lectureship, to make his headquarters in Europe.
That
effective response to all the demands upon us, as parents, practitioners, and public citizens, constitutes a heavy load, is a proposition to which some of us may often be tempted to concede; and that the dominion of this sense does not represent the freedom which Christ Jesus declared was to be gained through a knowledge of Truth, goes without saying.
The
ninth commandment, which reads, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," makes a strong demand for truth between a man and his neighbor.
