Article July 9, 1910 Issue

Proper precaution, reasonable care, pure food, fresh air,...

Alfred Farlow

Fort Worth (Tex.) Record

Proper precaution, reasonable care, pure food, fresh air, are all in keeping with the teachings of Christian Science, since discretion is more nearly right than carelessness, and the purest, the most wholesome in human belief, most nearly approaches the ideal. At this particular stage of their spiritual development Christian Scientists, like other Christians, are in a position where they are oftentimes obliged to choose the lesser of two evils. Inasmuch as they have not acquired a sufficient understanding of divine power to claim absolute immunity from trouble, wisdom demands precaution. Although supreme trust in God would lift one above the necessity of considering evil, our present limited degree of trust demands a cognizance of evil as a serious claim, and the exercise of both faith and discretion in dealing with it as such. It is a lesser evil to be careful and thus avoid the possibility of an accident than to take an unnecessary risk. Precaution is not necessarily based upon fear—it may be prompted by wisdom. Mere precaution does not necessarily depreciate one's faith or confidence in God. One might, as a wise "suffer it to be so now," use care, and at the same time retain his faith. On this subject I do not believe that Christian Scientists disagree with other Christians.

Animal magnetism indicates an attractive force or relation among all phases of animal quality, whereby non-intelligence would classify and coordinate itself after the manner of intelligence. It is the antipode of divine Science and takes the semblance of a law of the carnal mind whereby it simulates Principle and claims a universal order for its modes.—Frank P. Eberman.

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