The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Crane against Johnson and others, decided last week, has been filed, and it clears away the somewhat self-conflicting report by which the decision was first announced.
While
traveling recently by steamer from Calcutta to Colombo, it was brought home to me very forcibly how far reaching is the work of the Christian Science literature distribution committees.
So long as we believe that some one else can do things a little better than we can, we shall not be able to get very far along the road to perfection in any line of work.
To all who have accepted Science and Health as the "Key to the Scriptures" and pledged themselves to be loyal followers of the truth therein unveiled, the demand, "Physician, heal thyself," becomes a moral obligation.
There
is in the human heart a secret desire for popular commendation which ofttimes is productive of either a fear or a defiant indifference of what others may say.
A recent issue reported the establishment by a clergyman of a movement "involving mind control over body," known as a school of "Applied Truth Science.