Every Christian Scientist welcomes an honest investigation, for it will prove to the satisfaction of any earnest seeker that Christian Science is founded on the teachings of Jesus.
In a sense, Christian Scientists can agree with the preacher who was reported in the Homestead as speaking of Christian Science and saying, "One needs no mental healer who has the will to cultivate those states of mind which make for calmness and peace.
In the Prophetstown department of the Gazette, under the caption "Interesting Sermon," were reported some statements made by a minister of that place, setting forth his conception of God as physically personal and material, and as having "died that we might live eternally," also recording his protest against the worship of God as one.
Among
the first things a person does when he joins an organization, social, political, or fraternal, providing this has not been previously done, is to acquaint himself with the rules or by-laws of that body, his natural desire being to avoid violating the regulations.
Every
Christian Scientist needs to watch his own attitude toward his individual problems, lest his view-point become perverted and a too close focus on self exaggerate his struggle and blind him to the grand ultimate, namely, to be able to say as did the Master, "I have overcome the world.
In
all the relations of life, whether in the family, in society, business, politics, or religion, mankind are apt to experience the friction and inharmony of clashing human opinions and human wills, and well were it if all were able to manifest the beautiful spirit Mrs.
The
means by which those marvelous demonstrations of divine power recorded in the Scriptures were wrought, was the human understanding of what Christian Science designates as the allness of God, namely, His all-power, all-presence, all-intelligence.
