Article August 14, 1902 Issue

Our Attitude toward Others

BY GERRY HOYT BARNES

It was my privilege this year, to attend for the first time the Annual Communion service of the Mother Church, and to listen to the deeply significant words of our Leader's message. And I listened filled with the thought that they were words of warning and admonition from her, who, better than all others, knows the trend of the world's thought and the great need of the hour in our work in the Master's vineyard.

We all know what the burden of that message was, and when we attempt to say what we gained from it, it must be largely a repetition in poorer phrase of the thought which the message itself contained—indeed it must be simply to say that we gained a deeper desire to follow more closely our Leader as she has followed Christ; a desire that divine Love, undisputed and alone, may govern our thoughts and our actions.

A practical application of this thought suggests itself. In the city of X. there are two churches. In each are to be found those who have been healed from sickness and redeemed from sin, through the ministrations of Christian Science. In each are to be found men and women making earnest endeavor for higher Christian character, studying the same text-book, and having a common feeling of gratitude toward her through whose life of effort and of love they have been brought to Christ. In each also will be found men and women who, while they are "following after," make mistakes, even as you and I do, and whose garments still show the earth stains to those who diligently search for them.

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