Talking contemptuously about people's shortcomings is a destructive habit easy to fall into; and we may find we do it most often concerning the people closest to us or those who are accomplishing something good in the world.
The new trend toward ethics and morals is not primarily a swing back to biblical authority, but it is a challenge to the "everything is relative" brand of conduct of recent years.
A friend of mine who sells Oriental rugs and invited me over to see her collection of prayer rugs said, "Don't expect them to be perfect! Not only do you have to allow for mistakes a machine would rarely make, but the expert rug makers will put small, deliberate errors in because they believe it would be wrong for man to be perfect—only Allah is perfect.
There was a complete about-face in my life after I learned of Christian Science, and that God is Love and never made any form of sickness, sin, or death.
My testimony in The Christian Science Journal of January 1961 describes my introduction to Christian Science by the small children with whom I baby-sat as a teen-ager.
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