Those
who are living in homes in which the occupants are not all students of Christian Science, often find it very difficult to know just how far it is necessary to make concessions to the more material thought surrounding them.
Christian Science
is engaged in breaking down many social injustices and abuses, and its success in this line of endeavor is ever receiving a wider recognition, which points to the ultimate abolition of what is called class distinction.
To most of us, in our first introduction to Christian Science, there has probably been nothing which has caused us more perplexed thought and tripped us up more frequently than the question of sense testimony, the evidence or appearance that confronts the physical or material senses.
In
the prophecy of Jeremiah we read: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Dark
the night with cloud of sorrow,With tear-dimmed vision of tomorrow,—So much of joy and hope had fled;When unto me the still voice said,Read thou the Word,—"She is not dead"!'Tis but a darkling dream.
May I draw attention to the fact that there must be something much more than "curious" in the teaching of Christian Science, if it can appeal to the spiritual hunger of mankind.
Daily experience is fast demonstrating that no one school or system can truthfully lay claim to the exclusive right of way in a field of activity so broad and far-reaching in its sweep as is that of the treatment and cure of the sick.
Christ Jesus
declared the infiniteness, the allness of God's kingdom, and evil's consequent nothingness and powerlessness, in the closing sentence of that wonderfully comprehensive prayer, so full of significance today to Christian Scientists, which he taught his followers nineteen centuries ago: "Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
The
higher meaning which attaches to the Scripture word wisdom, identifies it with that spiritual understanding or knowledge of Truth referred to in the familiar proverb, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.
Every
sincere student of Christian Science would admit that the "scientific statement of being," given on <a class="tome-reference"
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Fourteen years ago I became interested in Christian Science through a friend who had been healed of various complaints, one of which was liver trouble.
One time it was my pleasure to stand in the bow of a boat going up Georgian bay, when the wind was blowing and when we were racing with a thunder-storm.
The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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