Many of your readers have been listening to the futile efforts of an evangelist, who attempted to persuade people to accept Christianity by convincing them that Christian Science, in which the world experiences again the redemptive work of the Christianity of the early centuries, is a work of the devil.
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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.
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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.