Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . moral leaderslived, nor yet for any physical or mental limi-tations that might have marked these question the world will insist upon iswhether the message is vitally and helpfully xx INTRODUCTION true; and if so, the generations that are tocome will turn in disgust from the carping ofthe critics against the voice that has pro-claimed the helpful truth to that which is re-demptive, vitalizing and helpful in the mes-sage. Every new religious conception ornew interpretation of religion has met withthe same bitter oppos
Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . moral leaderslived, nor yet for any physical or mental limi-tations that might have marked these question the world will insist upon iswhether the message is vitally and helpfully xx INTRODUCTION true; and if so, the generations that are tocome will turn in disgust from the carping ofthe critics against the voice that has pro-claimed the helpful truth to that which is re-demptive, vitalizing and helpful in the mes-sage. Every new religious conception ornew interpretation of religion has met withthe same bitter opposition we find opposingthis latest religious interpretation. Alwayshas the old order attempted to suppress thenew voice of protest and to discredit the mes-sage. The wise counsel of the great JewishRabbi Gamaliel, uttered when the Jewssought to crush out the early Christianchurch, is as applicable to-day as of old, butunhappily it is as little heeded as it was in theearlier day. I CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS A EELIGION CHAPTEE I CHRIST, THE SICK AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY. ECENTLY a number of leadingmonthly and daily journals havedevoted much space to the workof some well-known clergymen in Boston and Chicago in establishing medi-co-religious dispensaries in connection withtheir churches. Rev. Elwood Worcester andhis associate, Rev. Samuel McComb of Em-manuel Episcopal Church of Boston, and theRev. Samuel Fallows, .Bishop of the Re-formed Episcopal Church of Chicago, arethe leading ministers engaged in the presentattempt to harness medicine and theology inthe same team. All these gentlemen havebeen at pains to explain their method ofwork, which has also been favorably pre-sented by a leading Boston regular physician,Dr. Richard C. Cabot. In every explanationof their attempt to heal the sick by theseleading representatives of orthodox Chris-tianity, the clergymen and their friends have 8 4 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE been at great pains to make clear the factthat they accept the position which the m
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