At
one of the life-saving stations on the Great Lakes the captain asked a new surfman this question: "If, while standing on the pier, your attention should be drawn to a man in the water, apparently drowning, what would be your first duty?
Speaking
to his disciples of the laws which govern the true man, the Master said, "The last shall be first, and the first last;" and reasoning along similar lines, St.
In a recent issue a writer inadvertently quotes some one as saying that men have gone mad "on religious errors, such as millennial dawn, Christian Science, spiritism, annihilation, etc.
A recent issue contains an article on "The Light of Faith," in which the writer condemns the teaching of Christian Science, that material phenomena are unreal, as wholly fallacious, and upholds the contrary belief, that there is in the universe a "phenomenal as well as a noumenal reality.
As a recent edition of Emanu-El, referring to Christian Science, states that "according to that creed matter is nonexistent and an illusion of mortal mind," it may be said that Mrs.
The Portland clergyman whose article entitled "Review of Christian Science Claims" appeared in recent issues, might have directed his efforts to better advantage than by attacking the teachings of a movement which has to its credit the accomplishment of as much permanent good as has Christian Science, whose adherents are earnestly striving to reduce the sum total of the world's sin and misery.