At
a time when, as never before in the history of mankind, all the vexed and venerable problems appertaining to the government of nations may be said to have been thrown into the melting pot, it is interesting to speculate upon the nature of the changes which may be expected to have been wrought by this drastic purging, and to attempt to focus the Phoenix form which may fly upward at last, released from the funeral pyre of much garbage and wreckage.
Like
perplexed and troubled Pilate thousands of legal authorities down through the centuries have meditated upon and asked the vibrant question: "What is truth?
During
a conversation, a man who was then engaged in farming in the great western country, where irrigation is depended upon to furnish the moisture necessary to produce crops, remarked that he did not have a sufficient amount of water that season.
It is impossible to deny that the consensus of human belief is that man is the victim of that triad of evils—sin, sickness, and death—and that nothing short of a miracle, interpreted as meaning the supernatural interposition of divine, omnipotent power, can save him.
Christian Scientists hope that The Milwaukee Leader will not insist on misrepresenting either them or their religion; but the letter from a representative of the People's Council of America and the editorial adoption thereof, were both mistaken and misleading.
A few days ago we heard a minister of the gospel mention the fact that as he goes about his pastoral duties he finds so many people who are ill and in pain.
The fact that the particular creed to which our critic subscribes may differ from the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures taught in Christian Science, in no way proves the latter to be opposed to the Bible.
Prayer in Christian Science is not so much a pleading with God for favors as it is an understanding that already He has bestowed upon us all things good and needful; it is to realize the all-presence and the all-power of God, which of necessity destroys the human sense of sickness and sorrow as well as of sin, and thereby awakens the individual to the discernment that instead of being a helpless victim of evil and disease he has power and domination over them.
In an item in a recent issue of The Truth Seeker, surprise is expressed that Christian Scientists "have changed their foundation from love to hate," and are "actually supporting the war.
In
Paul's instruction to Timothy regarding those qualified to be overseers, he indicates that not only was such a one expected to be master of himself and to be skilled as a teacher, but also to be "given to hospitality.
All
students of the Bible are familiar with the story of Jesus driving out of the temple at Jerusalem the money changers, but the modern thought is disposed to regard this as applying to an outgrown condition, since material sacrifices are no longer offered to God in the way that they were at one time.
I have been a student of Christian Science more than a few years, and so numerous have been the proofs of the healing power of Truth that space and words are inadequate to tell of them, and memory could not recall them all.
With an earnest desire that the doubting of many may cease and the hope of the seemingly hopeless be stimulated, let me say that eighteen years ago Christian Science came to my attention, and in grateful acknowledgment of the results obtained from reading Mrs.
The following was the verdict delivered to my wife when seeking information as to the results of my affliction over four years ago, and was given by one of the foremost surgeons in our city: "Within three years all such sufferers become fully paralyzed if they live even that long.
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