In a recent issue I notice an excerpt from a criticism stating that "we make our own worries, and then repeat the error by resorting to Christian Science for relief.
A recent sermon by one of the good brethren of an orthodox church tells us that "if the church of today were more spiritually alive, Christian Science would decline; when faith in prayer is rekindled, and the Sermon on the Mount is applied to business and politics, the bottom will fall out of these side issues and the church will return to its own.
To a vast number of people, probably to the great majority of the citizens of the world, Christian Science healing still stands for a purely medical process.
The
words "reflection" and "belief" are used so often by our Leader in her endeavor to elucidate the subject of Christian Science, the study of which is enabling its students to enjoy an ever-increasing understanding of God and man, that a consideration of these words may throw added light upon our path.
When
the scribes and Pharisees came to Jesus, asking that a sign be given to them in proof of his God-bestowed power, he answered them in these words: "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.