Whatever the significance of the obscure remarks on Christian Science by a preacher, as reported, it is but fair to reply that Christian Science is symbolized by light and not by darkness.
It appears that the pastor's chief difficulty lies in his utter failure to grasp the difference between the true man and the false man as set forth in the first and second chapters of Genesis.
Christendom has commonly made the mistake of regarding the cross of Christ as relating exclusively to the experience of Christ Jesus, just as it has erred in worshiping his personality rather than the divine Principle which he represented.
The
problems which present themselves to the sailor who is a student of Christian Science are different in some ways from those of the individuals whose life is mainly spent on shore, but in one respect at any rate they are the same, inasmuch as the overcoming of evil by good is just as possible to the man who sails the seas as in any other experience of human life.
To
those who are taking their first steps in the study of Christian Science there no doubt often comes the thought: "Where can I best serve this cause, where and how may I do more for the Christian Science movement and church?
On
first becoming acquainted with Christian Science, most people who have been brought up in religious surroundings find that without intentional hypocrisy they have yet been accustomed to accept as true some statements to which they have given very little serious thought.
