The father of persecution is fear; the basis of fear is belief in evil, in a power and intelligence apart from God, good; and the parent of this belief is a lie, for God is the only Mind, or Principle, the one source and cause of all that is real and eternal.
A recent issue gave a report of a so-called Anti-Infidel League and stated that a convention would be held in the near future to perfect an organization, the object being to oppose the progress of a number of movements, including Christian Science.
A short time ago representatives of fifteen churches met at Alliance, Ohio, and listened to an address against Christian Science by a doctor of divinity who had been brought from a distant city for what was announced as "a joint movement against the inroads of Christian Science in this community.
In
the epistle of James we read: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
In
seeking to know more clearly man's existence as an idea of God, practical help has been found through a personal experience, which the writer ventures to pass on in the hope that it may be useful to others.
As
humanity turns in greater numbers to Christian Science, the need increases for watchfulness against the temptation to regard numbers as essential indications of growth.
