"We
are now compelled to regard our conceptions of matter as symbolic of a Power which is essentially unknowable, and the existence of which we can recognize only in its manifestations.
The
teaching of Christian Science is clearly distinguished from many of the theories with which it has been mistakenly associated in uninformed opinion, by its steady insistence upon the scientific sense of identity and individuality.
Some
years ago there was published in the Sentinel an editorial which touched upon the form and subject-matter of testimonies given at the Wednesday evening meetings, and subsequently a By-law on the subject was adopted by The Mother Church and published in the Manual.
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.