Written especially for the New York Sunday Journal by Mrs. Eddy, the Founder of the Christian Science faith, in answer to the charges made in the famous Brush will contest in the New York Court.
To say that it is sin to ride to church on an electric car would not be more preposterous than to believe that man's Maker is not equal to the destruction of disease germs. Christ, Truth, the ever-present God, who raised the dead, is equal to the giving of life and health to man, and the healing, as aforetime, of all manner of diseases. I would not charge Christians with doubting the Bible record of our great Master's life of healing, since Christianity must be predicated of what Christ Jesus taught and did; but I do say that Christian Science cannot annul or make void the laws of the land, since Christ, the great demonstrator thereof, said, "I come not to destroy the law, but to fulfil it in righteousness."
That a law suit was contemplated or in progress before Surrogate Fitzgerald in New York City was unknown to me until very recently, having read a report of it through the press.
