CHRISTIAN SCIENCE by The Examiner

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 18, 1889

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 7

“CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.”

By The Examiner

SECULAR papers have contained a great deal of late with reference to what is called by its teachers “Christian Science.” Scoffers who disbelieve in this new thing under the sun say there is only one fault to be found with the name its teachers have chosen, and that is, that “Christian Science” is neither science nor Christian. It occurs to us an unusually good opportunity is just now offered to these teachers to demonstrate the truth of their claims in a way that would silence all caviling. Instead of holding conventions at pleasant watering places, let them go to Jacksonville and cure people of the yellow fever. A half-dozen clear cases of undoubted cure would do more than all the newspaper articles of a century to advance the cause of Christian science. Of course, if this great discovery is what it is claimed to be, Christian science would be valuable as a prophylactic as well as a therapeutic; that is to say, it will prevent disease as well as cure it. None of the teachers who went to Jacksonville, therefore, would be in the least danger of catching yellow fever, and they could accomplish untold good in relieving those who are smitten by this dreaded disease. We commend this idea to those who are wasting so much ink in the newspapers to prove that Christian science deserves to be accepted as truth.”—The Examiner.