The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-14
Christian Science.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 In late issue of your paper note
 an article headed Christian Science. J
 I wish to thank the writer through
 your columns for the high tribute of
 respect which be has paid to Christian Scientists He has evidc ltly seen some
 thing in the lives of Christian Scien-
 lists that is the outcome of the system ! they espouse.
 This correspondent is quoted as say
 ing: II have come into contact with ! Christian Scientists for some time, and
 am glad to give my testimony to the
 fact that, so far as I can judge, they
 are fully up to the highest Christian
 standard, if not above it, in Christian
 faith and living, although I cannot
 agree with their teachings believing as | they do that there is no disease to those who have sufficient Christian | faith"
 The teaching with which the brother cannot agree is that of a system the very practice of which produces and
 brings out the highest Christian char acter, and he has depicted this in the above paragraph.
 When you see a problem in mathe- matics solved by given rule would it be wise to say, T accept the result, but l question the rule?'
 This strong Christian character, this high type of manhood and womanhood, is evolved through the understanding of the Bible as interpreted in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker c. Eddy.
 Those who have studied the Christian Science system know 1t to be practical and demonstrable, bringing out the best results of any religious teaching since the days of the apostles
 The writer seems to be troubled as to how Christian Scientists shake off the mortal coil" Jesus taught His disci- pies the continuity of life. l suppose all Christians believe in the teachings of our Master. Hear His wonderful words to Martha: "I am the resurrec- tion and the life; he that beIieveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believ eth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this" (John xii, 2526)
 I understand this mortal coil' to be the "old man." the Adam nature of which Paul speaks when he exhorts us to put off the old man with his deeds,' and put on the new man, which is re- newed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him." (Col. iii., 9-10.) This lesson teaches the law of progress sion, in which Christian Scientists thoroughly believe
 In the twelfth chapter of Romans teaches the transformation of body by the renewing of the mind. This process must go on until every vestige of 'mor- tality" is "swallowed up of life"
 The writer asks: "If there is no such thing as sickness how is it that per- son can show the influence of it in looks, pulse and temperature, and that medicine does correct these conditions of the system, as in levers, etc., mak- ing a complete change that any novice can plainly seer"
 Christian Science teaches that in the realm of the eternal unerring mind all is harmony; there Is no sickness, levers or dscord of any kind or nature, This | realm is governed by eternal unerring princtple-God; therefore all is harmo- | ny. And in 50 far as man reflects God 1, he is exempt from sickness and discord. | We have set our mark high This Is | the condition we are striving to reach, | and we find by experience that as we | approximate it the less liable we are to sickness
 We deal with disease not as a reality, | but as Q mistake. When working out a problem In mathematics we must ad- here to the rules given; otherwise mis- takes will appear in the conclusion and in order to correct them we must again 20 over the whole problem. Mathe- natics rest on scientific basis, and so does Christianity. When man un- derstands the principle of his being God-and works in harmony herewith,