Rejoice Always

ADELAIDE FISHER.

PAUL'S experience taught him that we may count it all joy when we fall into temptation. During the last few months, the temptation to give some prominence to beliefs of intelligence in matter may have touched us.

The clergyman, the physician, the author or others of culture "seem to have felt it a duty to warn against, ridicule, or otherwise misrepresent Christian Science, but like our Master, we may reassure ourselves of the nothingness of carnal mind, even when most assertive, and lovingly pray, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

The world is helped every time that error is effaced by realization of the one infinite Love. Those who for years have been trained in theological dogmas, may have unconsciously accepted man-made theories, until it is just as applicable to them as to those to whom Jesus spoke, "In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Not lapse of time, but spiritual illumination acquaints us with God, Spirit.

The physician whose good motives should be recognized has been educated into "the wisdom of this world" which Paul declares "is foolishness with God." The mental apparitions, which constantly appear before him, delude, and he forgets that transformation of the body is by renewal of the mind.

When estimated aright, the work of healing which Jesus enjoined upon all who love him will not be considered a rival of allopathy, homoeopathy, or any school of medicine, and condemned because it does not diagnose after the traditions of men.

The physical healing signs are promised as evidence that we are overcoming all evil in the right way.

Surely we may count it all joy when we are able to meet untrue, un-Christian criticism, scientifically. There is much profit in the endeavor to follow our Leader's advice as found in "Miscellaneous Writings," p. 224:—

"We should go forth into life . . . with an equanimity so settled, that no passing breath . . . shall . . . ruffle it; with a charity broad enough to cover the whole world's evil, and sweet enough to neutralize what is bitter in it."

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