An
editorial writer in the Chicago Inter Ocean, in commenting upon the efforts of organized physicians to secure legislation which will bar from the work of healing the sick all systems other than the one which they practise, says: "There is one fact that the advocates of statutory compulsion to what they regard as the only medical orthodoxy, would do well to remember.
To
no teaching did Christ Jesus give greater prominence, both in his words and works, than to this, that he who understands spiritual law can overcome and annual thereby the claims of so-called material law.
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.