In the columns of the Guardian, under the heading "Dearth of Doctors," there was a reference made to Christian Science which would leave the reader with the erroneous impression that the teachings of Christian Science deal merely with the question of therapeutics.
When
the writer was led to take up the study of Christian Science, the need of help seemed so urgent and real, the lack of anything practical in all that he had ever before investigated in a religious way seemed so apparent, that once the truth was found he simply lived with the Bible and Science and Health day and night.
On
five different occasions the words in the prophecy of Isaiah, "They shall not hurt nor destroy," and the similar ones spoken by the Master to his disciples, "Nothing shall by any means hurt you," helped me to prove the powerlessness of a wasp's sting to cause any discord.
Among
the many illuminations of the Scriptures which have come to us through the teachings of Christian Science, none perhaps is more potent for good in human affairs than the spiritual light gained from a metaphysical understanding of Paul's words in his second epistle to the Corinthians, where he says, "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
The recognition and understanding of the fact that God never violates His laws, that despite some one's misguided faith and mistaken zeal they never cease to operate, and that they are perfect and enduring, established "in truth and uprightness," as the psalmist says, places mankind in an intelligent and absolutely right mental attitude toward evil in all its phases.
