In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Education in Truth

The spread of Christian Science, the scientific knowledge of God and the real man, is revealing the disastrous effects of false education.

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In a review of a book of addresses recently published, it is stated that the author of them pronounced Christian Science "to be 'founded on a scheme of metaphysics which is crudely absurd,' but the faith built upon that unsatisfactory foundation he regards as 'entitled to all respect.
Christian Science declares that God, Spirit, Mind, is the perfect Principle of all that really exists; that the real universe, including man, is spiritual, perfect, harmonious, intact now and forever, and that this spiritual fact can never be changed.
Recently I attended a lecture on Christian Science given at a church of that denomination in this city.
I would be glad to have space for comment on your statement in a recent issue, that you have been unable to find the source of Christian Science healing outside of certain movements which deal with the speculations and theories of the human mind.
In his sermon at the George Street Congregational Church the clergyman is reported as having referred to people who today are turning aside from Christianity and the church of Christ and embracing the "gratuitous irrelevancies of Christian Science.
Since the article here following is a reply to an article which appeared in our columns, and since we wish to observe the rule of justice that one attacked should not be denied a word in his own defense.
Healing in Christian Science means vastly more than simply the alleviation of physical or mental suffering, however much to be desired that may be.

Being a Blessing

The promise, "Thou shalt be a blessing," quoted in a recent letter to the writer by a friend, recalled vividly to her thought how the application of the truths of Christian Science fulfils in the experience of its students this Scriptural promise to Abraham.

"Ye have need of patience"

A most helpful illustration of the unfailing power of Truth as revealed to us in Christian Science came into my experience recently.

Ark of the Covenant

Men write history which subsequently is read by other men, and while it seems more than we may expect that every historian should write with discerning wisdom, it is nevertheless within the possibilities of every individual reader's attainment to read human history with a divining consciousness of the vast range of man's real being, and to see the incidents therein contained, not as facts in any final sense, but as symbols.