In the columns of The Chicago Interior appears a criticism of a very indefinite nature, but bearing this title, and treating the greatest subject of the age: the greatest, because, when understood, it will be of the most value to man; of the most value, because, when he sees and knows what Christian Science means, it will bring man back to his own home and country, to which he has so long been a stranger.
One who understands this same Science, which the Master taught his apostles, and comprehends the truths of the Scripture in a demonstrable, spiritual sense, can easily discern that the Interior critic has unintentionally comdemned the way of Life, Truth, and Love, the Trinity in Unity, which Mrs. Eddy, the rediscoverer of this Science, teaches, and through which her students are enabled to heal the sick and relieve the sinner of the heavy burdens King Pharaoh has relentlessly bound upon his shoulders. I say, one can easily see this critic is a stranger and pilgrim in a foreign land, wandering in the labyrinth of mortal sense, not holding in his possession the key to unlock the treasures of Science and Health. Hence the corridors through which he is groping are void of even a stray glimpse of light.
This wayfaring one, who has so mistaken the teachings of Christian Science, and has so misjudged the authoress, without a comprehension of what her instructions are, I yearn to take by the hand, and with loving-kindness and tender mercy show him the way out of the dream of mortal sense, into the reality of his own true Being; and then he would discern for himself the beauty, the consistency, the loyalty to Christ, the Truth and the Light, which cover every page of Science and Health. The critic would then see that Mrs. Eddy's most powerful instruction is in the Trinity in Unity, Life, Truth, Love,—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,— and that these three are one,—all-powerful, supreme, and all-in-all. On this basis is established the Divine Science, the understanding of which gives us our power to heal as did the students of old, thus fulfilling the promise: Not only to these will the power be given—but to all them that follow after.
