So
long as mortals believe in a material body, it necessarily follows that material food will be needed by them; but when through the study of metaphysics we learn that Life is God, Spirit, then we begin to look to other sources than matter for our supply, our daily bread.
To
find the true meaning of a word we usually must wade through the sea of material associations and accumulated traditions which conceal its real status in the dictionary of human language.
On
page 46 of "No and Yes" our revered Leader writes these stirring words: "Man has a noble destiny; and the fullorbed significance of this destiny has dawned on the sickbound and sin-enslaved.
If the entire sermon preached recently in a local pulpit on Christian Science was as devoid of truth and as full of illconcealed religious intolerance as the synopsis reported, doubtless those in the congregation who knew even a little of the true teachings of Christian Science were reminded of the familiar saying of Jesus, "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Christian Science does not compel; it persuades truly, but only as it presents a reasonable explanation of God and man and unfolds God's plan of salvation from the ills and sins of the flesh.
Christian Science does not undervalue or minimize the redemptive and healing work of Jesus as exemplified in his sacrifice on the cross, as was stated in an account of a sermon delivered before the Christian church convention a few days ago.
The comments on Christian Science which have furnished the occasion for this present writing were mainly nothing more than mere dogmatic and intolerant opinions.
If the correspondent "Open Mind" is correctly described by his signature, there should be no difficulty in convincing him of his error in classing Christian Science with "clairvoyance, crystal gazing, etc.
It seems unfortunate that a periodical of such high standing as Saturday Night should have been betrayed into such a pitfall of loose expression as to say, "Mrs.
