THE acquittal of Dr.Brimm of the Presbyterian Church, has brought to light through the press a statement of the beliefs for which the doctor thought he should be tried as a heretic.

Among other things, he said:—

"I believe that miracles belong to this whole dispensation, and not merely to the first century of it; that they were given to sustain the truth of Christianity and not merely to guarantee the deity of Christ and the inspiration of the canonical writers: that they are needed for their apologetic value as much now as they were in the apostolic age; that miracles of healing are a special characteristic of this dispensation, and are the special privilege of God's children; that God means and wishes to make a difference between His children and those that are not, salvation being much more a real and present possession than we ordinarily make it."

The thought contained in this statement will give joy to all Christian who are proving that the days of miracles or wonders are not past. It shows that there is an awakening in the older churches to the important fact that the Scriptures do contain an imperative command that true followers of Christ must practise Christian healing according to Jesus' methods.

Christian Scientists especially rejoice at this, as a recognition of this Scriptural teaching leads thoughtful Christians to a desire for the spiritual understanding that will enable them to perform the Christ cures.

What is a miracle? Webster says "it is a deviation from known or natural law," a "wonder;" it is a "wonder" only to those ignorant of the method used to produce the wonder. To Jesus there were no miracles, no wonders. He understood how they were performed. To him the real law was spiritual. The so-called natural laws, that the human mind regards with so much fear and awe, were not observed by Jesus. He did not regard them as God's laws, for his demonstrations of power over storm, wind, wave, sickness, disease, and death were in bold defiance of them all. If they had been God's laws would he have annulled them? So it is with so-called health laws and hygienic laws. Jesus has as little regard for them, for he said: "Take no thought for your body, what ye shall eat or what ye shall put on."

The Scientific Christian or Christian Scientist has an understanding of how, through the One Mind, Jesus demonstrated the reality of good and the unreality of evil, sin, and disease. The belief that "Satan sometimes sends disease and suffering with God's permission" is charging God with having entered into a compact with his Satanic majesty to torture man, instead of being a loving Creator.

This false sense of God drives men away from any desire to know God or to worship Him, and has for ages estranged them from good. God is not the author of evil, neither has He created evil or entered in any way into an agreement with the evil one, or Satan.

The Scriptures affirm "God is love," "God is spirit." and from Him cometh every good and perfect gift. God is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.

If God is cognizant of, or in any way permits evil, disease, or death, man would have no right to interfere in any event, but to endure suffering would be living in obedience to God's law.

In his reflection upon this ever-interesting subject Paul says, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The light of wisdom broke in upon his consciousness and he saw the Christ-truth as his Redeemer, for he said, "I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."

It is clear that Paul realized that the real ego or selfhood was spiritual or mental, and that this real man of Spirit was under this law of God or Good, and under this law only could he be Christlike. He had learned this from the Master, who had said deny (or contradict) self, that is, deny the mortal self or the human belief that there is Life, Truth, Substance, or Intelligence in the fleshly man. Life, Truth, and Love, he said, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

Dr.Brimm calls calls the healing and reforming work of the Christian Scientists "Satanic miracles." This is the same error of thought that accused Jesus of casting out devils by Beelzebub.

What right has any one to condemn a system about which he knows nothing? If his method of healing is simply through blind belief about God and Satan, and he has never applied the scientific understanding or tested its method, he is ignorant of that method and therefore is not a competent judge.

Christian Scientists are daily and hourly proving that "don't know" of the agnostic to knowledge of Christ as the way, teaches the impure in thought to understand that pure thoughts make a pure body; it reforms the sinner, heals the sick, and binds up the broken heart. They say as Jesus said, "For which of those works do ye stone me?"

The Christian Scientists are not doing their work in a corner. Their lives and acts are open to the scrutinizing gaze of the world.

Those who are practising Christian Science are instant in prayer that they may have the Mind that was in Christ Jesus, that they may so understand Love, that they will radiate health, harmony, and purity to all with whom they come in contact. Praying to do good without knowing it; clinging steadfastly to God and man as His idea, created in His image and likeness with power and dominion; with honesty of purpose in selflessness and love, they are battling against the beliefs of evil, sin, disease, and death. Through Scientific demonstration they are proving that the power of spiritual understanding thins the veil and dispels the mist of pantheistic belief, and reveals the Kingdom of Heaven here and now. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has unlocked the hidden treasures of the Sacred Book.

While they are stoned, maligned, and persecuted, they are able to say, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do."

Edward H. Carman. In The Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.

New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth;
Lo, before us gleams her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

Lowell.