Article July 14, 1928 Issue

Referring to the recent installment of "Fair Dawn" in...

Ralph B. Textor, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,—Toledo

News-Bee

Referring to the recent installment of "Fair Dawn" in the News-Bee, I must state, for the benefit of your readers, that Christian Science does not in any way include the use of will-power, as inferred by the author of that story. On page 490 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," its author, Mary Baker Eddy, makes these cogent statements: "Will-power is but a product of belief, and this belief commits depredations on harmony. Human will is an animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul. Hence it cannot govern man aright. Christian Science reveals Truth and Love as the motive-powers of man. Will—blind, stubborn, and headlong—cooperates with appetite and passion. From this cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its powerlessness, since all power belongs to God, good."

Is there any happiness in the world like the happiness of others? There is no joy to be compared with it. The luxuries which wealth can buy, the rewards which ambition can attain, the pleasures of art and scenery, the abounding sense of health, and the exquisite enjoyment of mental creations, are nothing to this pure and heavenly happiness, where self is drowned in the blessedness of others. Yet this happiness follows close upon kind words, and is their legitimate result.—Frederick William Faber.

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