It seems that an evangelist in his revival meetings took occasion to criticize Christian Science, declaring that it "denies God, dishonors Christ, and disbelieves the Bible.
Our critic thinks that Christian Science is false and dangerous; but when he attempts to prove his opinion to be true by stating that Christian Science is the foe of the home and of society he asserts that which is not true.
While Christian Science teaches the unreality of sin as it teaches the unreality of disease and disaster, it substantiates the correctness of its teaching by the overcoming of both sin and sickness.
In
dealing with the subject of seeming obstacles to our progress, let us picture to ourselves a mountain stream rippling and singing over its stony bed as, in response to the law of gravitation, it traces its unerring way down to the sea.
It
matters not where we choose to locate our thought, as the psalmist discerned so clearly, whether in heaven or in hell, for God, divine Love, infinite good, is ever with us.
Christian Science
lets in the light of divine Mind upon human affairs through correct reasoning based upon divine Principle as underlying all cause and effect, thus bringing out in logical sequence the necessary steps to be taken.
One
tendency of the human mind is to meddle with affairs which are of little or no importance, and which do not in any way promote moral or intellectual development, to allow non-essentials and petty annoyances to engross attention to the neglect of those things which should inspire mankind and lead to spiritual growth and progress.
