Article March 9, 1899 Issue

Questions and Answers

with contributions from T.S.B.

Do you (Christian Scientists) really mean what you say, when you declare that the attacks from pulpit and press upon your system, aid your cause, or do you say so as a mere matter of bravado? —T.S.B.

A frank question, truly, and meriting a frank answer. Yes, dear friend, we mean just what we say. These attacks not only aid our Cause, but the Christian Scientists themselves. Persecution is wholesome in many ways. It keeps us alert. Left only to the sweeter phases of our ideal life, there would be danger of our lapsing into a fanciful transcendentalism, more of a hazy-intellectual than a spiritually-active sort.

We need the jogging of persecution—or that which seems to be so—to keep us in tune for good healing work.

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