We need a clearer discernment of the vital significance of gentleness in the character of men and women, in the relations individuals sustain toward one another, and in all the complex affairs of business and politics among social groups, and even among nations.
The evangelist whom your paper reports as making the statement that Christian Science is of the devil, seems to be giving himself needless trouble, for if it is of the devil, whom Jesus pronounced a liar, the more that people understand of it the less it will draw them; whereas in fact those who understand Christian Science best, love it most, and its crities often understand it the least.
In an article purporting to refute Christian Science the critic stated by means of comparison that we worship a "twofold power, one of good, the other of evil.
When the great apostle to the Gentiles confronted King Agrippa in the place of hearing in ancient Cæsarea, he summed up the incredulity of the human mind in regard to things spiritual in the trenchant question, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
When a man who is practising medicine says, "I use Christian Science in my work," he professes to practise two systems which cannot be combined, or else he uses suggestion.
The
trend of the human mind for centuries has been to associate goodness with asceticism, and it is not surprising, therefore, to hear the beginner in Christian Science express a vague fear that if he continues his study to the point where he finally becomes what he terms "good," he will have to give up much of that cheerful exuberance of spirits which he has somehow grown to think is incompatible with the religious temperament.
Students
of Christian Science who are making discoveries, have learned among other things how futile and profitless it is for mortal man to make plans.
