Your report that a Congregationalist minister visiting in Boston has denounced Christian Science and Christian Scientists reminds me, by contrast, of a recent sermon by another Congregationalist minister from the Pacific coast.
Once
when Jesus and his fishermen friends were crossing the lake of Tiberias in a small boat, they were overtaken by one of the sudden storms peculiar to those waters.
More
than two thousand years ago Moses, one of the first seers to glimpse and demonstrate the Christ, Truth, taught us: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
THE
world has so long associated the exercise of religious devotion with the "sad countenance" that a joyous appearance is often considered undevotional.
To
the Christian Scientist, working to know more of his God and to understand what real being is, that he may be enabled to live a better life among men, the definite demands of Truth sometimes seem almost appalling.
The account in your paper of an address given by a clergyman on the subject of Christian Science tends to show how the viewpoint of the clergy of the Church of England is coming into line with the teachings of Christian Science.
My attention has been drawn to a report of a meeting held at Bexhill, under the auspices of the Guild of Health, appearing in a recent issue of your paper.
In reading over the letters of the critics of Christian Science which appeared in a recent issue, one is struck by the familiarity of much of their contents.