I always
look at The Christian Science Monitor from two view-points: first, that of a person who is trying to practise Christian Science; and second, that of a person who in working for several years upon daily newspapers had to read eight of them every day, and who knows how they are made.
Long
ago Dean Swift wrote concerning "a creature pretending to reason that should value itself upon the knowledge of other people's conjectures and in things where that knowledge, if it were certain, could be of no use," with the ironical comment, "What destruction such doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe!" Philosophical writings are easily divisible into two classes.
What constituted the gulf between Christianity and the other religions with which the early Christians were surrounded, was the fact that Jesus separated once and for all the claim of the power of the human mind to effect good or evil, from the scientific knowledge of absolute Truth as the only real existent power.
One of the daily papers in New York which for years was bitter in its denunciations of Christian Science, said editorially last winter that Christian Science had proven itself as a religion of brotherly love, and that paper has since made no attack on Christian Science.
To any one who wonders how the many amazing misconceptions as to the true nature of Christian Science obtain currency, a recent issue should prove instructive.
In a little discussion recently on the subject of Christian Science with one of the orthodox clergy, the writer was told that Jesus' followers were first to preach the gospel.
As a constant reader of the Chronicle for fifteen years and a supposed "victim of suggestion," though not a member of any Christian Science body, I would like to offer a few remarks.
I hereby
announce to the Christian Science field that all inquiries or information relating to Christian Science practice, to publication committee work, reading-room work, or to Mother Church membership, should be sent to the Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church; and I have requested my secretaries not to make inquiries on these subjects, nor to reply to any received, but to leave these duties to the Clerk of The Mother Church, to whom they belong.
When
Christ Jesus defined evil, the devil, as a lie and liar, he made it clear that escape from evil, from every type of disharmony, is an escape from the rule of falsity, the subjection to some phase of belief in that which is not true.
All
through the Old Testament we find promises of the coming to mankind of better days, when sin and sorrow shall cease and when peace shall everywhere prevail.
Entirely free of debt and standing as a magnificent monument to the gratitude which many in Los Angeles feel for benefits derived from Christian Science, the beautiful new Second Church of Christ, Scientist, West Adams street, near Hoover, was dedicated yesterday [Sept.
The beauty, the wonder and joy, of which we get glimpses through Christian Science, fill one with overflowing thankfulness, and though deeds and practical proof are the true way of showing our gratitude, one desires to express it in words also.
It is surely my duty to give some expression of gratitude for the multitude of good things I enjoy, the result of putting into practice the teachings of Christian Science.
Over two years ago we first learned of Christian Science in our home, and since that time we have had many demonstrations of the truth, one of which I would like to mention.
With a heart full of gratitude to God, and to our Leader, who has shown us the way to Him in Christian Science, the writer gives the following personal illustration of how "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need".
I have heard the remark several times lately that one never sees a testimony in the Sentinel from Cape Town, therefore I consider I ought to be the one to send my own, having derived marked benefit from Christian Science.
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