The
importance of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Scientist's study can hardly be overestimated, for regardless of the particular phase of the Christian Science movement in which it may be one's privilege to work, whether as Sunday school teacher, as officer, or as obedient member, each one resorts daily to the Lesson-Sermon for his mental refreshment.
The
transient nature of human existence shows that the real life of man to be immortal must be different from anything within the cognizance of physical sense, and that man himself must be different from what is physically apparent.
Christian Science teaches, in agreement with the statement of the Master, that God is Spirit, and, in agreement with the statement of John, that God is Love; that He is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.
I have read the account of the attack made by a critic upon a religion whose adherents are quietly going about their business of doing good, and against the noble woman who founded it.
The fact that the Christian Science movement is a world wide one, drawing to itself intelligent Christian men and women and ennobling their lives, is sufficient to refute the critic's comparison of it to a stain and blight.
The letter from a Congregational minister which was headed by the words "The Claims of Christian Science" in quotation marks, presented his own claims, or those of persons who think as he does, rather than the claims of Christian Science.
While
the writer was preparing a lesson on the fourth commandment for her Sunday school class, she paused at the phrase, "In it thou shalt not do any work," and wondered why the words "in it" were used instead of "on it.
