An
illustration of how Truth works in our consciousness, if we are faithful in doing our part, came to the writer while studying one of the Lesson-Sermons.
Frequently
the complaint has been made by those of other churches that the teachings of Christian Science do not insist upon the necessity of the rite of baptism.
While
still a girl in high school the writer well remembers how the principal of the school deplored the fact that the pupils worked the problems in arithmetic simply to obtain the answer as it was to be found in the back of the book.
If
asked how good he would like to be, the average Christian would probably indicate that nothing less than perfection would satisfy him; but just how hard the average person is willing to work, or how much he is prepared to sacrifice to attain that ideal, is a vastly different matter.
In a statement referring to Christian Science a speaker is reported as saying, "Christian Science, for all the good that it achieves, also does mischief by discounting intellectual work," and much more in the same erroneous strain.
