It
is not uncommon for those who reverence Jesus the Christ and who are trying to follow his example, to wonder at the failure of the disciples, who were so closely associated with him, more fully to understand his mission and assimilate his teachings.
In
working to know the powerlessness of evil, we are sometimes led to believe that we are hindered in our work by some one who has not yet learned the importance of holding "thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true".
That would be a rare commander in battle who could contrive not only to choose his field of conflict, but to designate the character and disposition of the forces with whom he contends.
An editorial in a recent issue entitled "A Thought Movement," is liable to mislead some of your readers, because it places Christian Science in a class where it does not belong.
The
artist true paints not the world he seesWith eyes grown dim at scanning faultful things;But to the landscape, face, and form he bringsThe eyes of soul, to him real nature's keys.
Notwithstanding
the fact that a very large portion of the New Testament is given over to the account of our Master's work in healing the sick, the one point upon which many critics of Christian Science base their objection to this religion is that its followers profess to heal the sick by the same means which Christ Jesus employed.
Throughout
Jesus' earthly ministry as set forth in the gospels, we find that his chief appeal to those around him was that they should accept eternal life.
While confined in a hospital for the insane as a direct result of fifteen years of liquor drinking and wrong thinking, with its consequent lapses into dishonesty and misery, culminating in a final attempt to end it all by drowning, I received a note from a Christian Scientist asking me to read daily the fifty-second and fifty-fifth chapters of Isaiah.
When I first came to Christian Science, the physical healings seemed very wonderful indeed; today, after nearly ten years of practical application of the truth, they appear to be natural results of the action of divine Principle, and all good seems possible.
I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, as I had been unusually well all my life, with the exception of severe colds, from which I suffered two or three times a year.
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