Most
people are familiar with the history of the children of Israel and their wanderings in the wilderness, and more especially with those portions which are easily applicable to our own experiences.
Teaching
Christian Science to the children is a highly important work, and a Christian Scientist who undertakes to unfold the budding thoughts of the young cannot be too consecrated or too spiritually minded.
A sermon against Christian Science, as reported, bases the existence of Christian Science on the want of sanity and competent knowledge of the Scriptures on the part of its adherents.
There exists a tendency to compare Christian Science with various phases of mind cures which may properly be included under the generic term of mental healing, and occasionally, from a superficial study, to regard them as being identical.
One marvels at the strange perversity of the human mind in seeking information relative to the spiritual healing of Christian Science from a follower of material medicine.
It was not your correspondent's correct quotation from Christian Science authorities, but the deductions he made, which constituted his "man of straw," and his second letter only emphasizes his misunderstanding of the subject.
Immanuel,
or "God with us,"—what spiritual wealth is here disclosed! Before Christian Science and its infinite possibilities opened out, how little this name could have meant to us! One had become accustomed to reading these words periodically, or hearing them read in church, without attaching much meaning to them or drawing help therefrom; but with the Christian Science text-book as a "Key to the Scriptures," what depths of meaning are revealed!
