In reply to the article entitled "Apostolic Gift Found Dormant, not Withdrawn," in a recent issue, permit us to call attention to the fact that both theology and medicine had been in vogue for many centuries when Jesus of Nazareth appeared on the scene, healing by spiritual means alone all manner of sin, sickness, and deformity.
How
winning is the gentleness of Jesus! It has drawn the best in every age, and it never gave offense save to those who wilfully resisted the demands of Truth.
The
symbols used by the writers of the Holy Scriptures are a never-failing source of enlightenment and of unfolding joy to the student of Christian Science.
"God loveth a cheerful giver" just as surely today as when Paul proclaimed this joyous truth to the Corinthians; and the results of one's giving are the same, for "as he purposeth in his heart," he shall reap "sparingly" or "bountifully.
People
do not sufficiently consider how very largely a man's mental habit influences, and in fact decides, his character, conduct, the circumstances which environ, him, and the whole tenor of his life.
