The
question of food supply is so continually forced upon the consideration of those who have the task of providing either for themselves or for others, that we may well ponder over the problem and consider some of its aspects from a metaphysical standpoint.
Education
as generally understood tends to lead us early in life to believe that there are certain laws which govern us and the world in which we live, and to hope that these supposed laws will ultimately be found to be reliable, unerring, and understandable.
When
Jesus, at the house of the Pharisee, allowed Mary Magdalene to approach him and by the act of anointing his feet show her newly aroused sense of repentance and reformation he set an example of divine compassion which all believers in his teaching might helpfully follow in their social relations throughout all time.
When Pilate surrendered Jesus to the Pharisees he voiced an admonition for all time: "Behold the man!" Pilate was a pagan and the Pharisees had a theology that was as lifeless as dust, yet the Pharisees are often condemned by Christians for failing to see the truth about man that Christ Jesus demonstrated for the benefit of the world.
I would quite agree with the critic, in your issue of November 9, who said that "the well being of the community" should be protected from the dangers of Christian Science, if Christian Science taught what he says it does.
The writer of a letter under the caption of "The Clergy and the Doctors," deserves commendation for pointing out the fact that health is mental, and therefore not to be attained by material means.
A startling statement from the pen of a critic in these columns is this: "The healing element of Christian Science is part of a heathen philosophy and has nothing in common with the Christian religion.
The Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church, with the concurrence of the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society, announces that from this date all new applications of branch churches and societies, practitioners, and nurses, for advertisement in The Christian Science Journal, Der Herold der Christian Science, or Le Heraut de Christian Science, shall be made for recognition directly to The Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church.
I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing; but after the passing out of a dear son through an accident I experienced an intense sense of loss which it seemed impossible to overcome.
"Oh, Mother, Mother, learn to think right," was the oft repeated admonition of a friend to her mother during a two weeks' visit three years ago that brought to my attention the message of Christian Science.
When I first became interested in Christian Science, I thought that if I could live three years without medicine, as some of my friends had done, it would be a miracle.
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