Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church,
What was said about Christian Science and its Founder by the speaker in a "gospel tent" at Springfield, as reported in your issue of recent date, showed that he had better preach his own conception of the Christian gospel and allow other people the same privilege.
WHAT
confidence and encouragement are conveyed to thought through Jesus' words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"! To obtain the promised freedom, however, we must know the truth.
HOW
often we feel like saying, Oh, if I could only run away from it all! At times this may be because things at home are not running smoothly, and it seems to us that if we could only "get out of the house" all would be well.
ON
page 119 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, there appears the simple and profound statement concerning the nature of the real man,—namely that he is "but the humble servant of the restful Mind.
WHEN
Jesus was asked by his disciples, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples," he gave them a type of prayer whose form, as given in the gospels, has been known throughout the Christian era as the Lord's Prayer.
A SCULPTOR
is one who executes statues or other objects by carving or graving them from stone or other hard material, which he previously has modeled in some plastic substance, preparatory to the graving or casting.
IT
would be difficult, indeed, to think of a more joyous privilege than that which comes to those appointed to serve as Readers in a Church of Christ, Scientist.