It
is no means an unusual thing to hear people questioning the correctness of the Biblical statements relative to the great age of those who lived before the deluge and of some who lived after it, and by general consent, the age limit mentioned in one of the Psalms,—"three score years and ten,"—has come to be regarded as the utmost extent of human existence except in rare cases.
It
is well known that a great many physicians have turned to Christian Science to be healed of diseases which their own skill could not overcome, also that not a few have sent some of their so-called incurable patients to practitioners of Christian Science, but it is not often that a physician in active practice voluntarily appears as the defender of a system which differs so radically from his own as does the new-old Christianity of which Science and Health is the text-book.
Human
progress is the result of successive discoveries that the many things which have been called real are only apparent, the many declared to be true are only a seeming.
There
are few who realize how much more rapidly mankind would advance if professing Christian always endeavored to be above, never below, the world's moral standards.
The
following editorial comment made by the New York Sun upon the statement issued by two physicians who have voluntarily retired from the practice of medicine, is interesting.
It
is a truism that those who are not willing to be taught of God must learn their lessons in the school of trying experience, and that these include the great majority of mankind there will be none to question.
