Such
a sense of gratitude for the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures given us by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, comes when reading the twenty-second chapter of Genesis that I feel led to express it, hoping thereby to help others who are taking the human footsteps which are leading up to the light of spiritual understanding.
From an article in the News recently, it appears that a lady critic has vigorously attacked her erroneous concept of Christian Science, while indulging the belief that she was attacking the real thing.
"I feel that the right time has come to give my testimony of my physical and mental healings through Christian Science, hoping that it may 'magnify God' and help its readers as I have been helped by the testimonies of others given in the Christian Science periodicals.
The letter from an "Ex-School Teacher" under the caption "Faddism in Public Schools" is in fact a veiled fling at Christian Science by one who quite evidently does not understand the subject and is for that very reason disqualified to speak on it intelligently.
The column, "Crusts and Crumbs," in a recent issue, contains a statement to the effect that the gentleman who set December, 1917, as the "scientifically correct" date for the end of the world, was following along the same lines of interpreting Biblical prophecy as Mrs.
To
the writer, who had long been a lover of nature and the out-of-doors, there came a time, after beginning the study of Christian Science, when some doubt presented itself to her thought as to how, in the light of this new-old study, the beauties of nature were to be viewed; but as the vision of the spiritual creation gradually dawned upon her, these words of our Leader's in Miscellany.
On
a morning late in September, a student of Christian Science arose at dawn, as the sun in all its early morning splendor was just peeping above the horizon.
