Far be it from Christian Scientists to be disrespectful of the courts of the land or of the medical profession; nevertheless, owing to the publicity that has been given to the Walker case in Newark, New Jersey, they are prompted in self-defense to speak a few words for public consideration.
A writer in a recent issue attempted under the caption, "Psychic Phenomena: Some Studies of Unusual Manifestations," to couple Christian Science with modern psychotherapy and primitive psychotherapy, with the result that he has most conclusively shown, to any one having a least knowledge of Christian Science, that he does not understand the first Principle of the teaching of this new-old Science of Christianity.
Especially familiar to Christian Scientists is the vision described in the Apocalypse of "a new heaven and a new earth," wherein "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Through
his endeavors to make practical his understanding of Truth, to apply the law of God in solving every problem of his daily life, the Christian Scientist is continuously progressing in the way of holiness.
In
whatever field of activity the student of Christian Science finds himself engaged, it is one of the privileges of his work that he should find his reward by recognizing the fruits of the good seed he has been permitted to sow.
When
Jesus gave utterance to that great question which revealed the keynote of his human experience, "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
