When
we invite guests—a comrade in thought or a weary traveler along the road—to a meal in our home, as we all like to do, we prepare in advance the meal for that guest, that he may be refreshed in a normal way.
In
Hebrews Paul writes, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
David's
declaration, "Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness," might be uttered with the same literal and connotative meaning by a student of Christian Science.
Those
ignorant of the teachings of Christian Science are frequently misled into scoffing at what they may term the Scientist's times of meditation, ridiculing him and making crude jokes at his expense.
John W. Harwood, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
It is not claimed, as was stated by a critic recently in your paper, that Christian Science is something new; but that it is giving to the world the understanding of the truth which, like Christ, was before Abraham, and is from everlasting to everlasting, but which had been lost sight of for over sixteen centuries.
Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
A critic, writing in a recent issue of your paper, states that Jesus did not teach any science of mental healing, and that he assumed physicians were able to heal.
Pearl E. Reames, Committee on Publication for the State of Arkansas,
Christian Science teaches that the priesthood of Melchisedec, as recorded in Hebrews 7:14—28; 8:1, distinctly prefigures the life, character, and work of the Christ, forever maintained as the highest expression of divine Principle, God, and to whom Paul refers in his epistle to the Ephesians as "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.
Hugh S. Hughes, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
Many men, learned and otherwise, have attempted to prove that Christian Science is not Christian; but no one has ever proved it, because it is an impossibility.
W. Stuart Booth, Committee on Publication for the State of Colorado,
Christian Science practice, being the reinstatement of primitive Christian healing, is not based upon a physical diagnosis; and fair-minded doctors, recognizing this fact, have readily consented to the exemption of Christian Science practitioners from the terms of medical practice laws, which very properly set a standard of physical education for all whose treatment is based on a physical diagnosis.
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
Dealing with political questions, the solution of which by certain methods he does not approve, a critic in a recent issue of your paper likens these methods to the efforts of "a Christian Scientist trying to curre a consumptive.
Charles W. J. Tennant, Committee on Publication for London, England,
Since Christian Science teaches that God, good, is infinite, the answer to the question of the origin of evil must be left to those who do not believe in the infinitude of good.
No student of the New Testament can fail to become impressed with the depth of the understanding possessed and manifested by him who came to be known as the beloved disciple, as to the necessity under all circumstances of overcoming hate with Love, and of all men living continuously in love with one another.
Were
the average person asked to define health, he might find it difficult to comply, so indefinite seems to be the understanding of what health really means.
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