There
is no more mischievous tempter in the path of the progressive present than the unaccountable subtlety of the pressure of discontent,—a robbing of the present by the contemplation of a more satisfactory future.
The
human mind classifies the qualities of manhood and womanhood according to gender, and not as qualities of character, combined and complete in one individual consciousness; but in Christian Science, where God is one and is both Father and Mother, we learn that what is designated as spiritual man expresses both the fatherhood and motherhood of divinity.
My attention has been drawn to several slurring statements in a recent issue with regard to Christian Scientists, who are there described as "financial" healers, drawing "money from people they are supposed to heal," and so forth.
The clergyman whose remarks on Christian Science have been published in the Review tells us that his discourse was delivered in response to several inquiries concerning Christian Science.
It is recorded in The Acts of the Apostles that Jesus, on one occasion, after he had risen above all belief in the power of death, said to those assembled with him: "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.
It
has, perhaps, been the experience of most students of Christian Science that on many occasions mental suggestion has silently whispered the wisdom and expediency for the solving of some problem by compromising.
In
attempting to explain to some one unfamiliar with Christian Science what it is in our simple Lesson-Sermon that holds the wrapt attention of great audiences, I have sometimes felt the lack of a word to express it definitely.
