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.
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.
