Article February 26, 1916 Issue

Character

FRANK P. EBERMAN

Given a man's beliefs as to any situation, and his treatment of it is not hard to forecast. His action will be efficient and fruitful as he has the facts, knows their values, and as his purpose is just. His work is abortive and characterless in proportion to any obliquity of view-point, that is, as he lacks understanding; he gains character only as he follows Truth.

The teaching of Christian Science that the truth is to be found only in Spirit and in the spiritual, does not depreciate or belittle the material achievements that chart sixty or more splendid centuries, from the stone axe and war club to a conquest of the natural world, which today commands for men the treasures and pleasures of land and sea and air. Nevertheless, while Adam is no longer a cave-dweller, he is still a grave-dweller; and a world poet, neither pessimist nor iconoclast, in saddened lay has sung the still unstifled lament of Rachel in the well-known lines:—

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