As
last summer's vacation approached, a Christian Scientist who is not a practitioner, determined that wherever her vacation might be spent, the dominant motive for the summer should be to grow in the realization of the truth of being, that she might be better able to help her fellow men as well as herself to rise above false, material concepts, the tares of unreality, toward the consciousness of the one infinite Mind which is "cognizant only of the things of God".
Many
helpful points of view concerning the testimony or Wednesday evening meetings have been given Christian Scientists from time to time in our periodicals, and the writer feels greatly indebted to the editors and contributors who have thus offered the field the benefit of their experience in this most important branch of the work; but he would like to call attention to one aspect of this occasion which has impressed itself upon him with special force.
In the editorial in a recent issue, referring to an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, considerable argument is devoted to the exploitations of the service and value of the medical profession to suffering humanity, especially in times of public disaster, and incidentally an effort is made to show the utter uselessness of all other healing methods.
The teaching of the Bible are practical when understood, and the commands of the Master were not for his immediate disciples only, but for all the world to follow and obey, for he said, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
In an article in your paper by a clergyman I am glad to note his insistence upon the religious attitude of life in its application to relief and salvation from disease as well as from sin.
A correspondent whose letter appeared in the Oregonian concludes his discussion upon the cost of living with the statement that people may be happy "if they will but will it so and put in practise the teachings of Christian Science.
