The
immature thought of many students is doubtless responsible in no small degree for prevalent misconceptions which tend to prejudice people against Christian Science and to blind their eyes to a just recognition of the great good it is accomplishing throughout the world.
If
the winds did but store the sighings and sobbings of the sad hearts of all the ages, and did the clouds but hold the bitter tears wrung from the eyes of the countless millions who have fretted through a futile material existence, then, surely, joy could breathe no more in such a burdened air, and sensual pleasures would be drowned in floods of rain, salt anguish.
As the spiritual concept of substance appears to us, we see how often the seeming power of self-mesmerism has excluded us, like "gates of brass" and "bars of iron," from many advantages,—from the opportunity to work, from happiness, and from the privilege of bestowing happiness upon others.
It is stated in the Scriptures that God visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, and that He shows mercy unto thousands that love Him and "keep" His "commandments.
We fail to see any good grounds for the enactment of laws prohibiting Christian Science healers from practising, or charging fees for their services, or prohibiting people from employing them if they wish to do so.
Christian Science teaches that the truth about everything in the universe may be known, and that this truth, when understood, reveals harmonious, sinless conditions.
If it is reasonable to blame Christian Science for its failures, by the same token it is right to criticise materia medica, which has, as the records show, a greater proportion of failures on its books.
It is not necessary to hold a brief for Christian Science in order to declare that it is not going to be injured by tirades like that delivered by a clergyman at the Winona camp meeting last Sunday.
What an act of infinite wisdom it was on the part of the Senate to concur in the House Bill to squelch Christian Science—a belief or practice that has lifted thousands from misery to health and comfort.
We
occasionally find persons who try to justify the doing of evil upon the plea that good has resulted from it, or will result from it; but this is an impossibility.
The
account of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand, as given in the four gospels, may well remind us of the angel's declaration to Mary, "With God nothing shall be impossible.
Nearly all my life I had suffered from some physical ailment, and for the past eight years I had suffered untold agony from muscular rheumatism, there being at one time several weeks that I could not walk.
The first ray of light which shone into my darkened consciousness, through the understanding of Christian Science, convinced me that it is the pearl of great price.
It is only a little over three months since I heard of Christian Science, but since then I have given it a great deal of study and have derived great pleasure and benefit therefrom.
It is nearly sixteen years since the first shower of blessings came through the reading of our text book, Science and health, by our loved Leader, Mrs.
I began the study of Christian Science twelve years ago, hoping to be healed of hereditary paralysis of long-standing, and was also anxious to learn how to read my Bible understandingly.
Nearly seven years ago I was healed through Christian Science of nervous, stomach, and liver trouble in a very bad form, after being under materia medica about twelve years.
Like the woman who was healed through touching the hem of the garment of Jesus, I, too, wish to acknowledge the manifold healing received through touching "the hem of Christian Science".
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