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too frequently we hear the argument put forward that certain forms of disease are more difficult to overcome, and that it requires a longer period of time and a greater understanding of Principle to overcome them, than those which seem to mortal sense to be minor ailments.
The
writer knows a man who had labored for years under the seeming burden of a great weakness, and who was made so sick and brought so low morally by drink and profanity that he contemplated an erroneous way of leaving the world.
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the transitional stage of thought through which we as mortals pass in our growth out of a material sense of existence into the spiritual understanding of what constitutes our true selfhood, there are many helpful lessons to be learned when once the eye of faith is open to the ever active, omnipresent operation of the law of good in our daily affairs.
Christian Scientists believe in the only true and living God, and believe that mankind can be saved only through Christ, Truth, as Jesus taught and demonstrated.
A recent article quotes from a clergyman to the effect that religion as expressed through the various churches, including the Christian Science church, is entirely ineffective to meet prevailing economic conditions.
Christian Scientists can agree with our critic in her reminder that "Christianity is not a religion of theory or of opinion, but a religion the essentials of which are historical facts, incontrovertibly attested as any other facts of history.
No Christian Scientist would presume to criticize the clergyman for disbelieving in Christian Science, or for his preference for material means of treating diseases, but his statement that the practice of Christian Science is "precarious and morally dangerous," made somewhat indirectly, is not only exceedingly unjust, but impossible of proof.
It is a sad commentary on the progress of avowed Christian sects that the barrenness of their efforts leads their ministers to occupy their time so largely in attacking other religious movements.
