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?
The inference that Christian Science treatment is accomplished by suggestion, or the operation of human will power, is wholly wrong and absolutely contrary to what Christian Science teaches and practices.
I have heard the doctrine sent forth from the pulpit of the church that the days of divine miracles passed with the Christ himself, and in the same breath the assurance given that the redemptive power of the evangelical theory still remained, but could be realized only after death! This denying one half the promise and admonitions of the Savior and preaching the other half was not intended to be a compromise with modern thought and the thing we call devil, but it was, in my judgment, just that and nothing else in fact.
The description given by the Master in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew of the circumstances that would attend the second coming of the Christ, gives plenty of opportunity for study.
While
we were conversing recently, a young student of Oxford University, who is not a Christian Scientist, remarked to the writer, "How is it that we are taught science, literature, art, and every other subject but government, the most important of all subjects?
On
page 261 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has given to the earnest student of Christian Science counsel that will, if adhered to, revolutionize his thinking, and eventually his very existence.
The
writer at one time thought that one having been taught by Christian parents since early childhood to believe in God, and being equipped with a college education, was fully prepared to meet every vicissitude of daily living.
