To
those who have been taught to think of God as a magnified human being, the second commandment is a mystery, or else it has been so materially interpreted that the spiritual import is lost; but it needs to be understood before we can comprehend what we worship as God, since it defines more than any other commandment what the Godhead is.
The
immeasurable value of Christian Science to humanity consists in its immediate and continuous availability in solving the many problems which confront mankind.
Many
years ago, in answer to the argument that it was God's will that her mother should suffer, a child retorted, "I don't see how you can love God, if you think He likes to make you miserable.
I have read with interest in a recent issue a thoughtful article on "The New Ideal, or Some Fresh Ways of Looking at Life," and no one can fail to agree with its writer that a great spiritual awakening is the necessity of today, and the very fact that this is being realized is an actual proof that the much desired awakening is already here.
It will be found that many of the religious systems of the earth have something in common, whether it be a belief in God, an acknowledgment of moral responsibility, of human brotherhood, etc.
In the lecture in All Souls Universalist church, Flatbush, reported in the Eagle, the critic vouchsafed his estimate of Christian Science, and gave his "survey of the essential facts in the life of Mrs.