Loyalty,"
which a dictionary defines as "unswerving allegiance; enthusiastic or reverent attachment as to a sovereign or a cause; constancy," needs to be expressed by every student of Christian Science, if he would render loving service to God and to his fellow men.
Christ Jesus
used many familiar illustrations to help his listeners to understand the deep things of God which he was imparting to their dawning spiritual understanding; and in like manner his faithful follower, Mary Baker Eddy, employed a similar means to present her teaching.
As
a source of hope, joy, enlightenment, and healing, the Bible stands supreme in the field of literature, and men have come to look upon it as the voice of infinite, eternal Truth.
Be
not afraid to testifyThat He, the Lord of hosts, is nigh,The Saviour and DelivererOf every faithful worshiper—Who will not let the sparrow fall,Whose sheltering hand is over all.
My attention has been called to an item published in your paper which stated that "Christian Science has wrecked millions of lives, and caused immeasurable suffering and sorrow.
Your correspondent, "Luke," in referring to a Christian Science lecture, asserts the lecturer to be quite wrong in her conception of the "new birth," as set forth in St.
The
supposition that it makes little difference what one thinks, so long as what he says and does meets the human requirements, is completely disproved in Christian Science.
It is generally well known that the practitioners' cards in the directory at the back of The Christian Science Journal and The Herald of Christian Science indicate that those whose names are there listed have fulfilled specific requirements as to eligibility for the public practice of Christian Science healing.
I wish to express my deepest gratitude for the great help which I have received from the study of Christian Science, and I give this testimony with the hope that it may encourage others to partake of what is truly their birthright.
"Open
thou mine eyes," O Lord,That I may wake and seeThat Life and Truth and Thy great loveAre not far off from me,But here, within my very grasp,If I but look to Thee.
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