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To those who are satisfied with the use of drugs, or who fear to abandon what has always been their only means of relief, Christian Science may seem a visionary and intangible method of healing. Knowing that all material remedies are discarded, the false conclusion is easily reached, by such as these, that one who relies upon Christian Science treatment gives up something and receives nothing in its place; that he is running great risks; that he is being grossly neglected, and not infrequently the opinion is offered that one who refuses medical aid and depends wholly on God to heal him, ought to die.

Sometimes the statement is made: I belong to a Christian church, and have prayed repeatedly and earnestly to God to be relieved of physical distresses, and my prayers have remained unanswered how can you Christian Scientists rely on the efficacy of prayer to overcome physical sicknesses? At other times the question is put thus: Why are not the prayers of the members of other Christian denominations as effectual for the healing of the sick as are the prayers of Christian Scientists? If God does not answer our prayers in such cases, when we pray to Him fervently and sincerely as Christians, what right have you to expect us to have any faith in your prayers as Christian Scientists? We may ask if those who put such questions pray to the true and only God, or do they pray to a supposititious deity who has no existence? If they pray to a non-existing God, whom they "ignorantly worship" because of false teachings, their questions need no further answer than the pointing out of this fact. If they pray to a man-like God, and no such God exist; if they pray to a God who is man-like in His notions of justice, truth, love, punishment, and so forth, and God be infinite Love, Spirit, Truth, Life, then is it not clear that they pray amiss? For argument's sake, let us put the case strongly.

When you suffer from hunger you take bread or other food, and your body in belief is built up according as you assimilate the food. Now do you say or think that the bread caused your suffering? When you suffer from thirst you go to the fountain to drink.

Evil will not cast out evil. A lie will not correct a lie.

Critics of Christian Science, who think too deeply to dispute the Christian Scientist's views of matter, but who do not think deeply enough to accept his affirmations regarding Mind, occasionally try to obscure their logically indefensible opposition to Christian Science by declaring that Christian Scientists are narrow. The reasons advanced to support this allegation are two: First, that Christian Scientists as a class do not participate in sociological, philosophical, or reformatory experiments; second, that they do not study or even habitually read promiscuous literature, but seek the rather to follow the injunction.

Christian Science has been widely discussed and criticised, more or less kindly and unkindly, but those who have undertaken to antagonize it have overlooked the paramount fact concerning the subject; namely, that it is a matter of experiment rather than of controversy. No one is properly equipped for the discussion of any scientific subject unless he has himself demonstrated its statements.

Once upon a time, there lived in a country village a man with the untroubled eyes and placid smile of a little child. The villagers called him in their quaint parlance "a natural.

Belief , in ordinary usage, means mental assent on grounds other than direct personal knowledge, insight, or complete demonstration. It admits of every degree of conviction from the feeblest to the very strongest (Century Dictionary).

The Psalmist sang, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. " Our Saviour, the "Prince of peace," knowing what must be accomplished before this realization was possible, said, "I came not to send peace, but a sword.

The Apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, states, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. " Throughout the centuries of Christian history, as through the greater part of the history of the early Jews, the Scriptures have ever been of wonderful import and of vital significance to every devout truth seeker.