The Professor alludes to Paul’s advice to Timothy. Did he refer to that questionable counsel, “Take a little wine for thy stomach’s sake”? Even doctors disagree [25] on that prescription: some of the medical faculty will tell you that alcoholic drinks cause the coats of the stomach to thicken and the organ to contract; will prevent the secretions of the gastric juice, and induce ulceration, bleeding, vomiting, death. [30] Again, the Professor quotes, in justification of material methods, and as veritable: “He took a bone from the [Page 244.] side of Adam, closed up the wound thereof, and builded [1] up the woman.” (Gen. ii. 21.) Here we have the Professor on the platform of Christian Science! even a “surgical operation” that he says was performed by divine power,—Mind alone constructing [5] the human system, before surgical instruments were invented, and closing the incisions of the flesh. He further states that God cannot save the soul without compliance to ordained conditions. But, we ask, have those conditions named in Genesis been perpetuated in [10] the multiplication of mankind? And, are the conditions of salvation mental, or physical; are they bodily penance and torture, or repentance and reform, which are the action of mind? He asks, “Has the law been abrogated that demands [15] the employment of visible agencies for specific ends?” Will he accept my reply as derived from the life and teachings of Jesus?—who annulled the so-called laws of matter by the higher law of Spirit, causing him to walk the wave, turn the water into wine, make the blind to see, [20] the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the dead to be raised without matter-agencies. And he did this for man’s example; not to teach himself, but others, the way of healing and salvation. He said, “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.” [25] The teachings and demonstration of Jesus were for all peoples and for all time; not for a privileged class or a restricted period, but for as many as should believe in him. Are the discoverers of quinine, cocaine, etc., espe- [30] cially the children of our Lord because of their medical discoveries? [Page 245.] We have no record showing that our Master ever used, [1] or recommended others to use, drugs; but we have his words, and the prophet’s, as follows: “Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?” “And Asa ... sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. [5] And Asa slept with his fathers.” Veritas Odium Parit The combined efforts of the materialistic portion of the pulpit and press in 1885, to retard by misrepresen- tation the stately goings of Christian Science, are giving [10] it new impetus and energy; calling forth the _vox populi_ and directing more critical observation to its uplifting influence upon the health, morals, and spirituality of mankind.