A report of a sermon on the subject of Christian Science by a Methodist minister, published recently in an issue of your paper, requires some comment on behalf of the Christian Scientist of your community, who naturally desire to have their faith and teaching correctly represented in the press.
I shall be grateful for the privilege of commenting upon and correcting certain statement regarding Christian Science contained in a report of an address by a clergyman, appearing in a recent issue of your paper.
Pain seems very real to the physical sense of feeling, and Christian Scientists do not deny this; but they understand that the physical senses are always testifying to a false sense of existence, and not to the truth of being.
When
David in his distress called upon God for pardon and help, it is evident he had some understanding of the omnipotence, the all-power, of God; for he followed his prayer with the wonderful declaration of the truth found in the twenty-seventh psalm: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
It
is recorded in Matthew's gospel that Jesus, our great Way-shower, once said to his disciples, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Foremost
among the divine gifts to be desired and claimed is that of spiritual receptivity; for this gift brings with it the possibility of the continuous demonstration of Godlikeness.
