Article April 17, 1902 Issue

A Word from a Truth-seeker

BY M. B. SMILEY.

Perhaps a few thoughts from a Truth-seeker may find a welcome and a place in the Sentinel. A kind neighbor furnished me with a few copies of The Christian Science Journal and Sentinel, which I have been reading; and though not wholly converted to the Christian Science faith, I am free to admit that I find many very beautiful ideas in the writings which I can heartily accept, and nothing which could possibly make the believer or the world worse.

As well as my mind can grasp the Christian Science idea of God, — Good, — it is beautiful beyond comparison. It is Life, Truth, Love, and as time and eternity are passing, may we all be drawing nearer and getting a better understanding of what God is, and growing more like the great pattern which we are to imitate.

I have been reading Mrs. Kate Bangs' article in the Sentinel of January 2, and am surprised that members of any of the Christian churches should object to any of your articles of faith except that where all sin and sorrow shall be done away (God's purpose and Jesus' mission fulfilled). This is not orthodoxy, but to me it is a very beautiful thought; we are saved, not in our sins but from them. As I understand Mrs. Eddy's teaching, all God's children — sometime, somewhere — will be pure and happy, and if I can judge from what I see around me, I think the true Christian Scientist has made very good progress in the path that will end in the realm of purity and its resultant happy condition. If the tree is known by its fruit, I think Christian Science will have a very prominent place in the Master's vineyard.

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