By observing the spirit of the commandments, a person may see that he actually steals, for instance, whenever he leaves undone any good which he might have done, because thereby he is responsible for depriving some other person or persons of some blessing which it was within his power and was his duty to bestow.
The inner principles on which we habitually act are what we must regulate in order to have any abiding happiness; it is not to have a passive religious faith fostering the thought that somehow God will bring everything out right despite anything we can do.
The inspired prophets of this century are those who demand profound realization of the fatherhood of God, and a more vital and active consecration to service for the brotherhood of man.
It has been said, with justice, that just as the working of the Father in all the long history of mankind was only made clear in the revelation of the Son, so the meaning of the Son is only made clear through the Spirit of truth and love and power shed abroad in the hearts of men; and, we may add, the Spirit in His mighty acts will only be understood through the church when it comes to itself.
We have said that practical and effective union is impossible today because of inherited and cultivated peculiarities of mental approach to spiritual problems in the adult.
These are uncomfortable days for those who have settled down to a comfortable belief that the landmarks of thought are set permanently, and that a curse is upon those who remove these landmarks.
There is nothing in the present controversy which need prevent us from believing that there is something deeper in Christianity than that figure around which both conservative and liberal theologians have woven curious and conflicting dogmas.
In a recent issue I noticed a letter from a correspondent in Dunfermline asking for information about psychotherapeutics, in which he alluded also to Christian Science.
In a recent issue occurs the following quotation "Christian Science, so far as I understand the practice and conduct of those who profess to believe in it, is neither Christian nor Science, but a medley of crude, half-digested ideas culled from the teaching of Christ, the teaching of philosophy, and the teaching of science.
