DR. MCCORKLE, in his recent sermon on Christian Science, said, as have many others, that Christian Science is neither "Christian nor scientific." The Standard Dictionary defines a Christian as a disciple of Jesus Christ. The same authority says science is "knowledge gained and verified by exact observation and correct thinking." It is therefore truth ascertained.

The Christian Scientist can truthfully, therefore scientifically, state, that by conforming his life to the teachings and practices of Jesus, he can verify his words and keep his commandments, healing the sick and reforming the sinner by one and the same metaphysical or spiritual process. If this is true, the Christian Scientist becomes an expert, and in a court of justice the expert's testimony is to be accepted before that of one who is not.

If the doctor has never healed by the Christian Science method, he of course is not a reliable witness, either for or against Christian Science. The doctor, however, is willing to admit that many Scientists are good people, some of them through the insistence of their teachings upon certain statements of the Bible, as that 'God is Love,' etc., may have found in their new faith a comfort which they never found in the orthodox churches, not because the orthodox churches are wrong on these points, but simply because these people have not before realized in a proper way the comforting features of the Christian faith.

Christian Science does teach that "God is Love," and that "God is All-in-all;" a realization of this great truth is what brings the happiness and peace to the Christian Scientist, for it is this true sense of God that destroys the erroneous sense of Him—that He is the author of evil, or that He permits it. To cognize this fact through the spiritual understanding, brings a sense of freedom, joy, and gladness unknown before.

The doctor's text from I Timothy, 6 : 21, 22, which he used as a basis for his sermon, he quoted incorrectly, "Avoiding profane and babbling and opposition of science falsely so-called, which some professing have erred concerning the faith."

It is interesting to give a correct reading, as well as the twentieth century new translation, in order to show that the doctor might have been more careful in the choice of his text. The correct reading: "O, Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings and opposition of science falsely so-called, which some professing have erred concerning the faith."

The twentieth century reading is as follows: "Pray, Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turn your back on profane prattle and contradiction of what some miscall 'theology,' for some people, while asserting their proficiency in it, have yet in the matter of the Faith, gone altogether astray."

This new rendering of this passage shows that the phrase, "Science falsely so-called," believed by our friends in the ministry to apply to Christian Science, is not, nor was it intended, thus to be applied. It is the "theology" and the matter of faith about which Paul says they are gone astray.

Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health that it is the theology of Jesus which heals the sick, as well as reforms the sinner. It is this theology and faith grown to understanding that the Christian Scientist applies to heal the sick and reform the sinner, thus realizing God's power and presence as omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. To assert that we are preaching the Gospel, and are "proficient in our theology, and not to heal the sick," becomes profane and vain babbling, sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal.

Christian Science has reached that stage in its development in human consciousness when its cures can no longer be denied, but not being able to account for them because unwilling to accept and practise the Christ method, because unwilling to acknowledge that a woman was intelligent and spiritual enough to have a great revelation come to the world through her spiritual discernment, our ministerial friends account for the Christian Science healings on the basis of "blind faith cure," "hypnotism," "magnetic healing," "mental suggestion," or any other method except that God has power, and is willing to heal our aches and pains, while claiming to acknowledge God as a saviour from sin.

Christian Science is not healing by transference of mortal thought from one human mind to another. It is not hypnotism; the power to heal comes by emptying ourselves of our conceits, of our sins, of our false beliefs, by getting the human mind out of the way, and letting the Christ-mind come in and take possession of us, and rule us, and cleanse us from pain and suffering, as we are willing for Christ to cleanse us from our sins.

Not only "a few" of the cures of Christian Science can be accounted for "by a changed attitude of the mind," but all of them. Instead of morbid fear and imaginary ills, it blots out these pictures from the mind, and fills the thought with joy and peace that can only come through a changed mental condition. In this changed mental condition man finds in his inner consciousness the presence and power of God (as Paul says, the grace of God).

This face to face communion with God, through the law of Spirit, brings a sense of health, harmony, good-will, and love for one's fellow-man; it is a realization of God' presence, the justification by faith which Paul, through work and prayer, demonstrated to be the only way to find God.

Christian Science does not substitute Science and Health for the Bible. In Science and Health, page 497, the first tenet reads: "As adherents of Truth we take the inspired Word of the Bible for our guide to eternal life." Mrs. Eddy further says that for three years, she retired from the world to read and study the Bible, that she might find the rule and method of the Christ cure that had been so long hidden by materiality. These rules she has given to the world in Science and Health, and they are all in accord with the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures.

The Lesson Quarterly of the Christian Science Church contains lesson-sermons made up of passages from the Scriptures and references from Science and Health, bringing out their spiritual meaning; these are read by two Readers at the Sunday services. The doctor was misleading in his reference to the quarterly lesson.

For years after Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science, she subjected its rules to the broadest tests, healing the sick and the suffering.

After writing Science and Health she visited various ministers, seeking their co-operation in propagating and disseminating this healing truth, but to her they turned a deaf ear. After this, at her own expense, that the world might receive the alternative and healing effects of this truth, she published her book. On account of its intrinsic worth, changing people's thoughts of suffering, fear, and pain, to peace, happiness, health, and harmony, it won its way to popular favor, as well as to the condemnation of the schools and schoolmen.

Mrs. Eddy is its author, she is the recognized Leader of this great movement, but she is herself a patient listener for the still, small voice, and what she hears she gives to a hungering and thirsting world. Those who gladly receive her words do not worship her, but love her, as one who fills her own place in the unfolding of truth in human consciousness, and believe that she is a great religious reformer.

Edward H. Carman. In Savannah (Ga.) News.