Dear Inquirer: I accept your description of "Christian Science" as substantially correct, as having to do with the "Scientists" whom you have known: but as I have known a few persons, "Christian Scientists" of the straitest sect, to whom that description could not be applied, except as a libel, I feel that it may be obligatory upon me to speak out. No persons should be more careful than Baptists not to condemn their fellow-men before they have taken the trouble to examine their teaching and compare it with their life. (John vii., 51.)
Circumstances have made it convenient for me to examine their teaching with the same care, and I have also compared it with the lives of the few personally known to me. As a result of this examination I do not hesitate to say that if they are fair specimens of the whole body, the modern church would be elevated to a much higher plane of Christian living than it now occupies if it were to follow them.
They say that the sick man is a worse case than the sinner, if God can forgive sin and will not heal sickness. They tell me that the same Master who commanded us to baptize also commanded us to heal. I do not know how to answer them.
