In
the foregoing readings we have sought to understand the one, all-pervading Spirit, Good, the Power that made and governs all, and His true ideal creation.
To those who are not students of Christian Science, its declarations of the unreality of matter, its denial of the real existence, and the authority of the personal senses, and its constant affirmation of the reality and allness of Spirit, God, seem fanciful and arbitrary.
The
impression is general that our Master's action in the case of the woman taken in adultery, implied—in some vague way and within limits not well defined—relaxation, by the Gospel, of the strict moral requirements of the Mosaic law in regard to marriage.
