There
is nothing concerning which men in general are more indifferent than the determination as to whether their religious opinions and beliefs are right or wrong.
Who
that has known what it means to be born again, to feel the living, loving presence of the one Mind, to rest secure in Love's protecting care, who has recognized the touch of truth coming into his heart like the dawn of a new day, revealing the Christ, has not longed and prayed for the world to rise into this heavenly consciousness, this consciousness of God, good?
To be invited to write a short article on Christian Science is almost as bewildering an experience as it once was to be asked to a tea-party to tell a number of strangers, who probably are not particularly interested in the subject, "all about it.
Our critic will be glad to know that Christian Science is doing the healing works which he challenges it to perform, and without suggestion, and if he is earnestly in quest of the proofs he will not have far to seek.
The final words of our Saviour, as recorded in the closing chapter of Mark's Gospel, verses 15 to 18, cannot be separated, and I ask why our clergy do not fulfil the Scriptures and heal the sick, the same as the disciples did after his ascension, and as, according to history, their followers continued to do until about the end of the third century.
The writer must confess to no small degree of surprise at having read in a recent issue of the Californian of this city a brief article in which Christian Scientists are referred to as the subjects of a "delusion, or illusion, or craze;" and especially this statement of that editor's opinion: "We believe about fifty per cent of the Christian Scientists are mentally unsound.
To the Christian Scientist, the Christian Science movement is the effort to restore primitive Christianity, and by primitive Christianity I mean to a large extent that absolute unity of faith and demonstration spoken of by James, when he said, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Christian Scientists are hereby notified that a sufficient sum has been received to complete the new building for The Christian Science Publishing Society, and they are requested to send no more money for this purpose.
Religious
history witnesses to the fact that every great redemptive idea and movement among men has suffered more disability at the hands of its professing friends than at the hands of its pronounced enemies.
It
would seem as if some people were actually troubled over the fact that gratitude is springing up in the soil of human consciousness as it has not for a long time if ever before.
Within the next few weeks a series of pamphlets are to be issued, including a lecture by Miss Mary Brookins, entitled "Christianity is Science and Science is Demonstrable," the lecture before the Christian Science Association of Harvard University by Edward A.
I write this testimony with a heart full of love and gratitude to our Leader for giving us this grand book, Science and Health, from which we have gained an understanding of the ever-presence of God, an understanding whose results are always health and harmony.
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