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.
A Beginner
in the study of Christian Science was pondering the definition of substance as given on page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where we read: "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay.
Paul,
in his second letter to the Corinthians, after making emphatic statements and urgent appeals to overcome the carnal instincts and turn wholly to Spirit, quotes from an ancient writer this command: "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.
In
John's gospel we read that Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
In the June issue of the Presbyterian Record the editor devotes several pages to a talk on what he apparently conceives to be Christian Science, but the subject is flagrantly misrepresented.
Christian Scientists appreciate the kindliness of the criticisms of their religious beliefs contained in the article in a recent issue, but the critic's statements relative to the discovery of Christian Science and to its teachings are so erroneous that space is asked for a brief correction.
