IN an editorial of a Southern denominational newspaper recently written, entitled "Christian Science. Is it moral?" we find the following:— "In commenting on the third article in the creed of Christian Science that 'There is no law but love,' Dr. B—t says: "Here Christian Science raises the red flag of anarchy, and with a defiance more dreadful than the bombs of Chicago, flings to the winds the authority and restraints of all law, human and divine. Is our civilization ready for such a revolution? I say revolution, because I was plainly told that the adoption of Christian Science meant a complete revolution of all the theories I had ever held and taught. And in writing this ... I am only preparing to bring upon myself the curses of every free-lover from Maine to California.''
Our apology for noticing this article is that it is in line with other foolish onslaughts upon Christian Science made by persons wholly ignorant of what it is. Christian Science is evidently meeting with the same relative opposition in some parts of the South that, in its earlier history, it encountered in the North. We know of many persons who, a few years since, were as flamboyant in their denunciations of it as the writer of the above is, who now, as the result of having learned something of what it is from its works, and the character and lives of its adherents, are heartily ashamed of their former utterances. We know of many,very many others to whom the name of Christian Science was as much of a red, anarchical flag, as it now seems to be to our Southern friend, who are now numbered among its strongest disciples.
They were brought into it, not by hasty conclusions and assumptions, but by profound conviction as the result of earnest investigation, and witnessing or receiving its practical benefits. If our critic refers to the third article of the Tenets of the Church of Christ, Scientist, as he evidently does, we would respectfully ask his careful re-perusal of it. We will here quote it: — "Third — We promise to love one another, and to work, watch and pray: to strive against sin, and to keep the Ten Commandments; to deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly; and inasmuch as we are enabled by Truth, to cast out evil and heal the sick."
