A contributor makes the statement: "One need not be a Christian Scientist to know that a man with a strong effort of will can stave off a cold or influenza.
Christian Science is doing good,—indeed, so much good that it is a marvel that newspapers admit to their columns attacks on it when so many evil influences call for excoriation.
I note that an evangelist has been holding a protracted meeting in Temple, and on several occasions made reference to some other religious denominations whose teachings differ from his views.
In a recent issue of Chat, under the heading, "What the Doctor Says," the writer advocates sunshine, fresh air, simple, healthy food, rest, and faith as aids to health, and adds: "What of rest and faith?
Whether confidence in prayer is more or less of a superstition than faith in medicine, and whether the practice of Christian Science requires less or more arduous preparation than the practice of medicine, are questions which a recent editorial in Puck entitled, "Enter Prayer, Exit Pill," was more likely to agitate than answer; and I am willing to leave these questions where Puck left them.
Curiously enough, the failure of men to permit religion to be the practical dynamic thing in their lives that it is in truth, may be traced in a very large degree to the very practice which our critical friend commends and from which students of Christian Science are freeing themselves; that is, the habit of taking any one's "opinion" about religion as truth.
What a joy to the discerning in these days of rampant, self-advertising journalism is that well edited, sanely conducted daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, which requires no biased eyes to see its intrinsic worth.
In
order to progress in any line of work one must first have a firm conviction of the desirability of that for which he is striving, a conviction strong enough to keep him working persistently, to lead him to meet obstacles bravely and overcome discouragement cheerfully.
Why
were such tight little rosebuds sent for decoration, I wondered, as I looked at the slender points of red which dotted a bunch of white flowers at the Sunday morning service.
The
vast number of material remedies proposed as cures for the ills of mankind, and the many material antidotes in use which are relied on to destroy disease, enable any one to realize that at the time Christian Science was discovered, healing by spiritual means was practically lost to the world.
