So
much help and light were recently received by the writer from the words of Peter, "Use hospitality one to another without grudging," that she desires to share the blessing with others.
When
we accept Christian Science and its divine Principle, God, as our only standard for right living, we find, as in everything else, our concept of honesty quite different from any former idea of honesty we have ever entertained.
How
often one hears it said by those just beginning the study of Christian Science that they see the theory but cannot understand or demonstrate its Principle.
In
the early days the man who conquered himself and was called Israel, a soldier of God, declared, "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
In a recent issue of your paper we read of an address by a theologian, entitled "Inconsistencies of Christian Science," which is a fair example of how far afield one can go in the discussion of a subject he has not made his own as a result of practical demonstration.
An article appeared in a recent issue of the Argus-Press in which a traveling revivalist announced as the subject of his closing sermon, "Mischeif Makers and Modern Religious Heresies, Being an Exposure of the False Doctrine of Christian Science," et cetera.
A clergyman in his lectures on "Christian Science," reported in recent issues of your paper said that "people could not accept the teaching of Christian Science and be loyal to our Lord.
There is no particular need of urging mankind to seek after knowledge, as that has been the chief occupation of humanity since the beginning of time; but because it has mistaken material knowledge for true enlightenment, its search, in proportion to its success, has been very logically rewarded with the cumulated evil effects of materialistic knowledge.