In
a Literary Digest article on "The Function of the Poet in America Life," Edwin Markham says: "But if America has no spacious past, she has a spacious future.
It
is impossible to read the account of the rich young man who came eagerly to Jesus inquiring what he should do to inherit eternal life, without a feeling of great compassion for the keen disappointment which he must have suffered.
To
the lover of Christian Science it is an oft-recurring joy to find that Bible, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and individual experience bear consistent witness to the truth of being and to one another, and he frequently quotes that familiar passage in Isaiah, beginning, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;" but its very stately rhythm may have been obscured from the unusual order in which the blessings that follow are pronounced.
The
writer is engaged in the theatrical profession; and in traveling about the country, incidentally he has been able to witness or learn personally of many remarkable demonstrations in Christian Science.
In
the beginning of the writer's experience in Christian Science, she exclaimed to the friend who was gently attempting to lead her thought to an acceptance of a logical conclusion about the nature of God and man, "But if I admit your arguments I will be led into accepting an ultimate absurdity.
One reason advanced by our critic why he could "not be a Christian Scientist" was that it would require of him to become "intellectually dishonest," a most startling implication of this Christian faith which, if provable, would disrupt its claim to teach Christianity.
