Article July 27, 1907 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from G. M. Twitchell

[The Outlook.]

It is very difficult to reconcile with honest faith the timidity with which men hold the most fundamental truths. If they held these truths as a matter of conviction and experience rather than as intellectual opinions, they would not be afraid; because truth is in its nature impregnable. No man can really believe in a truth without being sure of its ultimate triumph. It is not strange that men are timid when they do not hold truth in its integrity; for believing in a truth is a much more difficult matter than many people comprehend. It is easy to have an opinion. It is not easy to make that opinion so much a part of one's character and life that it passes over into a deep and unshakable belief.

The adherents of Christian Science can make no more effective appeal than the declaration that their belief casts out fear and delivers those who accept it from the bondage to this ancient foe of the human race. Fear has no place in the life of any man or woman who believes either in God or in humanity. It is a survival of a semi-barbarous age, a specter that lingers, like the superstitions which children still cherish, from the times when men divided the world between God and the devil, with much the larger part to the devil.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK