The Evangelist, of New York, in a recent editorial relating to a Christian Science lecture, thus animadverts:—
"It is very certain that the life of that movement or church which calls itself by this name is that its members do practise and live by certain truths which have been the property of the Christian Church since our Lord revealed them, and that his Church has greatly suffered by not living up to her privilege and duty in this respect. It is safe to say that the philosophy on which Christian Science is based is a tissue of ignorance and misapprehension, but the lives of the great majority of Christian Scientists are a beautiful illustration of what certain teachings of Christ ought to have wrought in his Church long before this, and might have wrought, had the Church been more full of faith and less concerned with speculation."
We have made a special study of our editorial friend's deductions with the hope that we might be able to reconcile his conclusion with his premise, but we have signally failed. Moreover, we have arrived at the deliberate and definite conclusion that the fault does not lie with us. It lies rather in our friend's bad logic.
