At
one time the writer was assisting in the defense of a Christian Scientist charged with manslaughter because no physician had been called in the case of the sickness of a child and Christian Science alone was relied upon.
Probably
there is not a word that is more misrepresented or less understood than the word "work," and more than likely it is most frequently used as a verb—I work, you work, he works, et cetera.
If
we carefully examine the reason for the world unrest of to-day, especially the manifestation of labor strikes, we must unmistakably trace it all to one source, lack or the fear of lack, and all because of the belief that money is substance,—whereas the only possible lack there is, or can be, is lack of the understanding of God.
Christian Science
is continually revealing to man the truth of the Bible, which always seemed so obscure and which teemed with mystery beyond our solution until we found that "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy is truly what she proclaimed it to be—a "key" to the Scriptures.
When
studying the Old Testament we note God's protecting care for each and all of the prophets, as their realization was on the side of infinite God, showing that the power of Principle predominated then as now, that sin and disease were healed as the prophets understood that man's life was not in or of material outlining, and did not look upon man as a miserable sinner but as the invisible spiritual idea.
It
is doubtful whether any one outside the ranks of the Christian Science movement has any proper conception of what he is doing when he makes use of what is known as will power.
