The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
Two Kinds Of christian Scientists.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In judy
ing the Christian Science movement most
opponents OF 1t lose sight Of very i'm portant
fact viz. that there are Christian Scientists
and Christian Scientists.
There are those. q minority or majority
Of that following I know not. who see and
live the great spiritual truth that all good
ness Is from God and that goodness 10 the
only lasting power and that evil Is simply.
our inability to see the good; that evil becomes
less and less force In our lives as We study
the spiritual laws that in their last eventua-
ton must transcend all conception OF them
possible to our present consciousness. but
In our present kno Wedge OF them are forces
OF positive benefit in the healing OF disease.
poverty and imperfection. These Christian
Scientists are the vital strength Of the move
ment They realize that the work Of interior
reform by which external things are changed
Is of necessity slow. as one cannot shake
OF IN a night tastes. inclinations: fears and
through the centuries Of the patient toll Of
as ancestors trying Internationally to be-
The second class Of Christian Scientists
seems the most in evidence. Without any
training either mental or in meeknees; they
They have been benefited In body 9nd often
healed after doctors have , "H,yen then Up:
rant Is =, themselves YOU now have ali insei-
genee." and immediis,tely they begin to CAB:
torily explained. Indeed, 81. Paul. state
ment about those. who "yainly pulled up by
seF s sM %4d Tor s angels 0q to d h ' soud
They tend to make laughing stock of what
they COME under the control of minds as I'M
informed as themselves. but shrewder. Under
a person Of dominating will working for her
WINGED that she is a modern apostle and cor
responds in this age to the great Apostles OF
Ga sae sFe led nf ssyns.
are at times the essence Of blasphemy,
To a mixture Of pretentious Ignorance and
possible. and like the poor man who, Jumped
trom the roof oony!nssed Of his hi -, ability to
ever eS deeper darkened and begin to regard
the most inconseauent trifes as direct signs
to hs in sates they
some great power to do their work. and as the
natural results appear and they, see their
snSs they deny S9t Of ., which they sSns.
equal spiritually Of Jesus the Christ indeed.
man 1d Mr.,
than our Blessed Master. ''''N''"
Often this latter class have teacher"
their entire lives, most OF them honestly
SOME expecting TO profit ~ the influence
mont overdrawn. let me relate something
from my experience.
.d ass ns to cs hsf vss ansd Sy oil
legged Christian Scientist. The venture was
unprohtable, and when murmurings began
from her platform that she was now behind
and she did not wish and would not have
talk stopped. but the venture is still as it
was. am informed that this person Is now
ss.n IN SS"y in whoh
which has q most unfortunate resemblance
In mere Thsn d az Rs
y much a fear that /. is .uch people who give
great movement which is .enfranchisins the
religloW Thought Of the country and 10 doing
for our spiritual life what the physioal sclen-
can bear witness to great good done for
and sn fss s9sa BY
eyes 70 see God as everywhere. IL only would
besI, TO clear f,cm my mind the snoranee
shoasht and would seen 70 and Him IN the the
essy z, every s 1 ssd s blue sh
dren, In the strength, the majesty and the
goodness Of the Lord Christ, II taught
me the practical meaning OF that saving OF
the Master: Blessed are the pure OF heart,
for they shall see God" and having found
Him In some small degree have found In a
that from pain and peril and poverty, from
woe and from despair and all that brood OF
IL indeed. my Saviour. HUMILiTAs.
JERSEY CITY, Juno %.