After the change called death takes place, do we meet those gone before?—or does life continue in thought only as in a dream?
"And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Matt. xix. 28.) What is meant by regeneration?
Are both prayer and drugs necessary to heal?
Are material things real when they are harmonious, and do they disappear only to the natural sense? Does this Scripture, "Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things," imply that Spirit takes note of matter?
Because none of your students have been able to perform as great miracles in healing as Jesus and his disciples did, does it not suggest the possibility that they do not heal on the same basis?
Can Christian Science Mind-healing be taught to those who are absent?
Can Christian Science cure acute cases where there is necessity for immediate relief, as in membranous croup?
Can I be treated without being present during treatment?
Can all classes of disease be healed by your method?
Can an atheist or a profane man be cured by metaphysics, or Christian Science?
Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have been healed by Christian Science?
Can you take care of yourself?
Can your Science cure intemperance?
"Dear Mrs. Eddy:—In the October Journal I read the following: 'But the real man, who was created in the image of God, does not commit sin.' What then does sin? What commits theft? Or who does murder? For instance, the man is held responsible for the crime; for I went once to a place where a man was said to be 'hanged for murder'—and certainly I saw him, or his effigy, dangling at the end of a rope. This 'man' was held responsible for the 'sin.'"
Did the salvation of the eunuch depend merely on his believing that Jesus Christ was the Son of God?
Do all who at present claim to be teaching Christian Science, teach it correctly?
Do animals and beasts have a mind?
Do we not see in the commonly accepted teachings of the day, the Christ-idea mingled with the teachings of John the Baptist? or, rather, Are not the last eighteen centuries but the footsteps of Truth being baptized of John, and coming up straightway out of the ceremonial (or ritualistic) waters to receive the benediction of an honored Father, and afterwards to go up into the wilderness, in order to overcome mortal sense, before it shall go forth into all the cities and towns of Judea, or see many of the people from beyond Jordan? Now, if all this be a fair or correct view of this question, why does not John hear this voice, or see the dove,—or has not Truth yet reached the shore?
Do you believe in change of heart?
Do you believe in translation?
Do you sometimes find it advisable to use medicine to assist in producing a cure, when it is difficult to start the patient's recovery?
Do you teach that you are equal with God?
Does "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" explain the entire method of metaphysical healing, or is there a secret back of what is contained in that book, as some say?
Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission, prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unborn child?
Does Mrs. Eddy take patients?
Does it not limit the power of Mind to deny the possibility of communion with departed friends—dead only in belief?
Does the theology of Christian Science aid its healing?
Has Mrs. Eddy lost her power to heal?
Has man fallen from a state of perfection?
Have you changed your instructions as to the right way of treating disease?
How can I believe that there is no such thing as matter, when I weigh over two hundred pounds and carry about this weight daily?
How can I govern a child metaphysically? Doesn't the use of the rod teach him life in matter?
How can you believe there is no sin, and that God does not recognize any, when He sent His Son to save from sin, and the Bible is addressed to sinners? How can you believe there is no sickness, when Jesus came healing the sick?
How does Mrs. Eddy know that she has read and studied correctly, if one must deny the evidences of the senses? She had to use her eyes to read.
How happened you to establish a college to instruct in metaphysics, when other institutions find little interest in such a dry and abstract subject?
How shall we demean ourselves towards the students of disloyal students? And what about that clergyman's remarks on "Christ and Christmas"?
If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, "my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
If Christian Science is the same as Jesus taught, why is it not more simple, so that all can readily understand it?
If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was "the way, the truth, and the life," cognize it?
If God made all that was made, and it was good, where did evil originate?
If I have the toothache, and nothing stops it until I have the tooth extracted, and then the pain ceases, has the mind, or extracting, or both, caused the pain to cease?
If Scientists are called upon to care for a member of the family, or a friend in sickness, who is employing a regular physician, would it be right to treat this patient at all; and ought the patient to follow the doctor's directions?
If all that is mortal is a dream or error, is not our capacity for formulating a dream, real; is it not God-made; and if God-made, can it be wrong, sinful, or an error?
If mortal man is unreal, how can he be saved, and why does he need to be saved? I ask for information, not for controversy, for I am a seeker after Truth.
If mortal mind and body are myths, what is the connection between them and real identity, and why are there as many identities as mortal bodies?
If not ordained, shall the pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist, administer the communion,—and shall members of a church not organized receive the communion?
If one has died of consumption, and he has no remembrance of that disease or dream, does that disease have any more power over him?
If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners?
If this life is a dream not dispelled, but only changed, by death,—if one gets tired of it, why not commit suicide?
In what way is a Christian Scientist an instrument by which God reaches others to heal them, and what most obstructs the way?
In your book, Science and Health, page 181, you say: "Every sin is the author of itself, and every invalid the cause of his own sufferings." On page 182 you say: "Sickness is a growth of illusion, springing from a seed of thought,—either your own thought or another's." Will you please explain this seeming contradiction?
Is Christian Science based on the facts of both Spirit and matter?
Is a Christian Scientist ever sick, and has he who is sick been regenerated?
Is a belief of nervousness, accompanied by great mental depression, mesmerism?
Is it correct to say of material objects, that they are nothing and exist only in imagination?
Is it necessary to study your Science in order to be healed by it and keep well?
Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition of mortality?
Is it right for a Scientist to treat with a doctor?
Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely well myself?
Is it wrong for a wife to have a husband treated for sin, when she knows he is sinning, or for drinking and smoking?
Is it wrong to pray for the recovery of the sick?
Is not all argument mind over mind?
Is spiritualism or mesmerism included in Christian Science?
Is there infinite progression with man after the destruction of mortal mind?
Must I have faith in Christian Science in order to be healed by it?
Must I study your Science in order to keep well all my life? I was healed of a chronic trouble after one month's treatment by one of your students.
Please explain Paul's meaning in the text, "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
Please give us, through your Journal, the name of the author of that genuine critique in the September number, "What Quibus Thinks."
Please inform us, through your Journal, if you sent Mrs. — to —. She said that you sent her there to look after the students; and also, that no one there was working in Science,—which is certainly a mistake.
Should not the teacher of Christian Science have our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in his schoolroom and teach from it?
The Rev. — said in a sermon: A true Christian would protest against metaphysical healing being called Christian Science. he also maintained that pain and disease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?
Was ever a person made insane by studying metaphysics?
What are the advantages of your system of healing, over the ordinary methods of healing disease?
What can prospective students of the College take for preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of literature and languages as objectionable?
What course should Christian Scientists take in regard to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of medical statutes?
What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief, "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise"?
What do you consider to be mental malpractice?
What do you think of marriage?
What is immortal Mind?
What is organic life?
What is the distinction between mortal mind and immortal Mind?
What should one conclude as to Professor Carpenter's exhibitions of mesmerism?
What sins?
Who is the Founder of mental healing?
Why did God command, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth," if all minds (men) have existed from the beginning, and have had successive stages of existence to the present time?
Why did Jesus call himself "the Son of man"?
Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal without it?
Why do you charge for teaching Christian Science, when all the good we can do must be done freely?
Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and that Soul is not in the body?
Why does the record make man a creation of the sixth and last day, if he was coexistent with God?
Will the book Science and Health, that you offer for sale at three dollars, teach its readers to heal the sick,—or is one obliged to become a student under your personal instruction? And if one is obliged to study under you, of what benefit is your book?
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