In
these days when resentment and hatred are much in evidence, obedience to the Master's great correlative to the First Commandment seems to require more attention than ever before; and there has been revealed, and is being disseminated in Christian Science, as if in anticipation of this hour of need, a scientific and demonstrable understanding of love which makes such obedience entirely possible.
The
two sat together in their favorite corner of the shaded porch, with the last rays of the setting sun filtering through the leafy branches that encircled it.
Christian Science,
which gives mankind the glorious perception of God as the Father-Mother, inculcates in all its adherents a sense of patriotism far beyond that of their preconceived ideas of this sentiment, and their patriotism thus becomes the manifestation of a spiritual quality of thought, instead of human sentimentality.
In
order to be effective the work of Christian Scientists must be based upon a clear comprehension of what the present world conflict represents and includes.
When man's spiritual being is understood as the idea of intelligence, or infinite Mind, this understanding dissipates the belief in matter, which until then had obscured the scientific and spiritual facts of existence, and this new understanding brings health and happiness; for the body being only the manifestation of this belief in matter, it follows that the mental change which is produced when the spiritual understanding of being appears, produces a salutary effect on the body.
There is surely no occasion for doubt as to the stand taken by Christian Scientists in the present world conflict, for many months ago The Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church, in Boston, issued a widely published statement to the effect that no one could claim exemption from war service on the ground of being a Christian Scientist.
As a member of one of the so-called evangelical churches of this city, I would like to protest against the spirit of petty denominationalism shown by the lecture which is advertised to be held during this week in one of our leading churches.
