Article July 13, 1907 Issue

AN EVERY-DAY RELIGION

CLARENCE. W. CHADWICK

Real religion ought to pervade every action of our lives; it is not a thing only for Sunday, or for our closet.—Queen Victoria.

The distinguishing feature of true religion is its harmonious blending of theory and practice in daily living. Even the most devout profession of faith, if unaccompanied by works, weighs little in the balances of God. If one's daily life does not accord with his highest Christian belief and profession it is void of true religion.

Christian Science is showing mankind how to bring religion into daily practice,—in fact, how to make it constantly available for the solution of human problems. Religion is nothing unless it is practical and complete, and for the comprehensive every-day exemplification of this fact the world owes a debt of gratitude to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science for having reestablished the long neglected union of faith and works. The practical side of religion is appealing to countless thousands of earth's sufferers. They had read of the marvelous works performed by the Master and his disciples, but were informed by various leaders of religious thought that these works were not intended to form any part of the daily religious activity of present-day Christians—that "the day of miracles is past." Believing what was thus taught by those who should have known the truth about the gospel teaching, they have turned in their despair to drugs and to a thousand-and-one other human inventions for relief, only to prove the utter futility of such false dependence. With their finite limited sense of omnipotence they have cried aloud to their idea of God to bring them surcease from suffering, only to realize that their prayers were unanswered.

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