Christian Science Not New.
A writer in the Independent, who signs himself “Dicast” says of Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy, its founder: “The insidious danger of Christian Science and of all its kindred errors—for it is but an ancient folly in new motley—lies herein, that much of its doctrine is verbally true, whereas the application of this doctrine is utterly and perniciously false; and there is no form of error into which the half-educated mind falls so readily and hopelessly as one where partial truth is falsely applied to life. . . . It would not be hard to parallel every important passage of hers [Mrs. Eddy’s] from Hindu works and from two or three medieval philosophers; but her application of this truth to life is so childishly simple as to show that she merely repeats words without any conception of their meaning.”