Christian Scientists
do well to bear always in mind the essential fact that the writings of our revered Leader are the immediate fruits of the practical application of her understanding of divine Principle in her life experience.
The
full significance of these words of Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," has been almost entirely lost for many centuries and their meaning will remain obscured so long as we cling to that great error of mortal mind, the belief in the reality of matter.
Just
as language has come to be used in a new way to express spiritual truth, so the thinking of the Christian Scientist has changed in regard to the use of words.
In a recent issue under the caption of "Healing League," statements are made relative to Christian Science, which give an erroneous impression of what it teaches, and how the healing of the sick is accomplished through Christian Science treatments.
Christian Scientists have in no way lost their equilibrium as a result of the unwarranted and unchristian attacks upon their religion by a visiting evangelist, since the opening of his campaign in Oklahoma City.
The
study of Christian Science at once emphasizes the fact that Mind and its idea is in reality all there is, that this idea is nothing less than the exact and perfect expression of the infinite, reflected in illimitable variety of harmonious experience.
Who
among us, before we began making the study of Christian Science our guide to right thinking and living, would have pleaded guilty to the continual breaking of the First Commandment?
