We strongly incline to the opinion that the critics of Christian Science who carp about the logical methods of the author of the text-book, are too much given to straining out gnats and swallowing camels. This habit seems to be a result of modern theological training. There is in this training much of the intellectual, but not enough of the spiritual.
To get near to God, so near that one can realize His allness. His omnipotence, and that He is Life, Love, and Spirit, and that nothing whatever has real or true existence apart from Him, is the essential thing.
There is, of course, a sense in which both the inductive and deductive methods of reasoning are brought into requisition, but in the final analysis the only true logic is the assumption of God as the divine Principle of all that is, and the deducing of all that is from this Divine premise. This is reasoning forward from cause to effect, rather than backward from effect to cause; and this is what the Christian Science text-book consistently does.
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