Not
long ago, I saw for the first time a glorious sunrise on the ocean, and the whole experience seemed typical of the transformation wrought in my life when the dawn of Truth as revealed in Christian Science awakened me to spiritual sense.
All
who anticipate joining a Christian Science church will find rich profit in a careful study of the definition of church as given on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," for it is fitting that we should have a clear conception of what this step means in order that the line of separation from whatever is foreign to the nature of our new alliance may be sharply drawn.
The difference of belief between the idealism of Christian Science and materialism has never been harmonized and never will be for the reason that one is the opposite of the other.
Toward the close of his revival, according to a recent issue, the preacher said considerable about the ravages of sin, and then stated: "There are but two classes of people who dare not argue against sin,—Christian Scientists and fools.
Our critic quotes Jesus' refusal of the temptation to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, because such an act would deny the submission of the body to physical law.
A writer in a recent issue, commenting on Christian Science, infers that Christian Scientists "by mistake, ignorance, or misconception" disregard the constituted laws of the community in the conservation of public health, and classifies Christian Science practitioners in common with quacks and charlatans who practise in violation of the medical law.
