In
the search for permanent and changeless freedom from the materiality that unenlightened human consciousness would have us acknowledge as reality, we must endeavor to rise to a realization of the truth of being that there is no selfhood apart from God.
Into
the lives of each one of us come experiences that test our very fiber—experiences that seem like the wrestling of Jacob, that will not let us go till we have received their blessing.
In
the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew we are told that the people were astonished at Jesus' doctrine, "for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
In your recent issue you report an evangelist as having said that Christian Scientists "do not believe that there is a hell; neither do they believe that Christ Jesus was divine.
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
In your recent issue you copied a joke in which a little girl—supposedly attending a Christian Science Sunday School—was spoken of in a manner intended to ridicule Christian Science.
"Father,
I thank thee that thou hast heard me," cried our Master before the tomb of Lazarus, in the face of an audience skeptical, perhaps, or at any rate full of human sympathy.
