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Show the y due i to thf beinl tian systeA ia whiy healinjA the wor Tribune what I teroSv though she nV. She brought tov tain philosophic ments. Ia my re philosophy to BerkCv set forth extreme ideaTis. as I know, (though I ag soner that it is not probatjS, tian Scientists got It from BsL I then meant to argue tha sopay would not any moreN. other sustain any miraculous theorS ing. Man may have a body ianA ing,' as Dr. Holmes humorous Berkeley, or composed of a d interpret him. It is all the a body is, it is a reality, if realities, and its diseases art! more be dissipated by a thV. whole earth can be destroyed UV man's will. I mean to say thattliew phy, though it had a most respectatSi- gin, is not new, not original with the flis- tian scientists, and then that it wouiot . sustain the conclusions that they draw Lin . it in resrard to health healinff. IJst hare made quite a failure in M ' I intended to do, or I would Pli have stirred up as a champion fo'-ie Christian Scientists, Mr. Keasonermio is not one of their number, nor a believMn miracles, either. How well they will a ' bis championship seems to me Tery 4-ful, 4-ful, for they surely will not agree tha-'Weir central principle is the self-asset J spirit over matter." It is all spijj jf them, matter has no existence, or (is spirit also. The Christian ecien J doubtless be pleased with Mr. H good intentions with the spirit of chtft A-ship A-ship that he shows. And I am sorry rVp.T tone or tenor in my article that should made it seem to anybody that I mear.V0 abuse them, or to be severe upon anybod1" anything, except simply the miracle t y of cure. ' That I believe to be a false tbeoryii-lieflnitis tbeoryii-lieflnitis a delusion; it savors oxcr-stition; oxcr-stition; it does harm instead of jJSpit stands in the way of truth and scieuc. d. no possible "breadth" can make it rie11 exercise "charity" toward it as a thr'V All fairness, charity, respect, is due iflf the people who hold this or anb fJ theory, and I am very sorry if I hf'f A to offend against breadth or libeLO j allusions to the Christian seiAr people or society. T)ay . , - A REPLY TO MR. REASONER. To the Editor of The Times: Since Mr. Keasoner received the impression from my communication to tbe Tribune that he expresses ex-presses In your issue of this evening it seems certain that others will not understand under-stand what I meant to convey In my article, and for this reason I write a few words more iu reply. What I wrote yesterday was written very hastily and I am surprised that it should be thought elaborate. Mr. Keasoner Kea-soner aays of me 'ho fails to set out the fundamental conception of Christian science and its practical application with that degree of breadth and charity that is due, etc." I reply that it wa not my aim to set out the fundamental conception of Christian science. Whole hooks are written to do that and even then the matter is none too i clear. But I most heartily agree with j Mr. Keasoner that "it U entitled to |