When the great Bishop of Hippo, in the fifth century, was sending throughout an eager Christendom his work, "De Civitate Dei," concerning the City of God, he dimly apprehended a fundamental truth.
Many
years before coming into Christian Science the writer had an experience which, though at the time regarded as only a passing incident, now vividly recurs to thought, teaching a valuable lesson and helping to clear away belief in the reality of evil.
Not
since the eve of the Christian era have men felt so strongly convinced of a great change going on in the world order as they have during the past fifty years.
The words from the ninety-first psalm, "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee," also the statement from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
"I feel my heart so swell with gratitude for the great blessing of Christian Science in general, and at this moment in particular for the wonderful way in which its literature has been made always accessible to the boys in khaki and blue, that I am constrained to express it in this note to you.
Rarely is one allowed the doubtful privilege of reading a letter from the pen of a minister of the gospel so replete with statements which dishonor God, discredit Christ Jesus, and repudiate the whole Bible, as the one which appeared in a recent issue attacking the editorial, "A Mad World," reprinted from The Christian Science Monitor.
One of the speakers at the Wesleyan rally is reported as saying, "The philosophy of Christian Science is sound, but the theology of Christian Science is all over the shop.
