Mere theological discussion will never satisfy the hunger...

P. Verrall

Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Courier

Mere theological discussion will never satisfy the hunger and thirst after righteousness. What the world needs are the signs which follow them that believe. These signs were enumerated in the very last words of the Master, just prior to his ascension, and were recorded by St. Mark as follows: "In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

The healing and reformatory work which is being done in Christian Science is the best possible proof of the soundness of its doctrine. Shall not a tree be known by its fruit?

A Universalist minister, in a recently published sermon, recites his experience in Christian Science, after having spent many months of fruitless search for health and strength. He says,—

"In order to be healed, it was necessary for me to study Christian Science and learn its Principle and practice. I did little else for some weeks. It was very difficult for me to drop some of my former beliefs and to grasp certain ideas in Science, but, until I did, the healing did not commence. I now understand Christian Science quite thoroughly and believe it wholly. I know it is true. I have come to know that Science and Health, the Christian Science text-book, embodies truth of the highest and most valuable character and is almost verbally inspired.

"Because of the great gifts which she has brought to this and succeeding generations, Mrs. Eddy is entitled to be generally esteemed and revered, as she already is by the people of the Science churches, as a great prophetess of God.

"The reason that Christian Science is not better and more easily understood is that it is a system of thought by itself, unlike anything that has before appeared,—at least since Bible times,—and with a somewhat technical vocabulary in which the meaning of several frequently recurring words has to be carefully studied before the thought of the text can be understood. In fact, to sympathetically understand Christian Science, is, for one approaching it as a learner, a task requiring as much careful and unprejudiced study as would be required of a person reared and grounded in orthodoxy to understand and believe the whole philosophy of Universalism. I have come to know that, if one really gains a full knowledge of Christian Science, he cannot choose but believe, and I have learned that those who have not studied it long and sympathetically, to the point of understanding it, should not condemn it; for in this age it is the good news of God unto salvation."

Richard P. Verrall.
Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Courier.

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