Moonlight schools, so called because conducted during moonlight nights, are meeting with success in various communities in Kentucky, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
If
asked how good he would like to be, the average Christian would probably indicate that nothing less than perfection would satisfy him; but just how hard the average person is willing to work, or how much he is prepared to sacrifice to attain that ideal, is a vastly different matter.
While
still a girl in high school the writer well remembers how the principal of the school deplored the fact that the pupils worked the problems in arithmetic simply to obtain the answer as it was to be found in the back of the book.
Frequently
the complaint has been made by those of other churches that the teachings of Christian Science do not insist upon the necessity of the rite of baptism.
An
illustration of how Truth works in our consciousness, if we are faithful in doing our part, came to the writer while studying one of the Lesson-Sermons.
Beyond
the sun that floods the earth with lightAnd brings the day to dawn on mortal sight,Beyond the moon that glorifies the nightAnd myriad stars that make the heavens bright,Is Life eternal, known to us as God.
It would hardly seem possible that a minister of the gospel of Jesus the Christ should cherish any desire to discredit the religious convictions of his neighbor, no matter what those convictions might be.
I am not a Christian Scientist, but I would like to ask the clerical critic if he ever attended a Christian Science meeting and if he knows anything whatever about the Christian Science creed.
The writers in two published letters disagree with a Christian Science lecturer who in the course of his address made the statement that "Jesus never claimed to be God.
One might think from the recent remarks of an evangelist that Christian Scientists wilfully close their eyes to sinful conditions and without trying to overcome or destroy them pass on with the superficial remark, "There is no sin;" yet nothing could be farther from the truth.
Christian Science does not teach the worship or following of any personality, but it sets forth the fundamental fact that God is the Principle and law of being, who creates, governs, guides, protects, and provides all sustenance for that which exists in fact.
Efforts
of the doctors to bring about compulsory medical examination of school children and others are not on the wane, and it is quite evident from newspaper reports that where they have succeeded in having this work done, little if any regard has been paid to the wishes and protests of parents, or even to the simple dictates of modesty.
There
are perhaps not many who take the trouble to discriminate between faith and mere credulity, which is defined as "a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
I first became interested in Christian Science through my mother's wonderful healing, and began to study it principally to learn how such a healing could possibly have taken place, and also to learn how to be able to help others, as I knew so many who needed help and did not seem to be getting it.
In the early part of September, 1910, my little daughter developed symptoms of incipient typhoid fever, and within ten days the disorder had assumed a grave aspect.
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