Throughout
the Scriptures we find repeated statements as to the calls of God to humanity, and it is somewhat startling to read in the fiftieth psalm these words respecting those who are called to listen to the divine voice: "Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
The Christian Scientist has adopted the ideal of Jesus, an ideal which includes all the possibilities of good and excludes all the elements of the flesh and of evil.
It is a sound principle of public policy that legislation should be made in language to express the intent as definitely as it is possible to express it.
In a paragraph published in a recent issue the writer thereof shows very little appreciation of the real nature of Christian Science when he says, "Christian Science when combined with medical science might be made to do wonders," etc.
In a lecture reported in a recent issue of your paper, a clergyman takes exception to the term Christian Science on the ground that the theology of that movement repudiates the orthodox teaching of the incarnation.
Error
tries to discourage many workers on the literature distribution committees by belittling the work, by saying it is nothing to hand a paper to some one; but a member of one such committee has been greatly helped, and taught a lesson in patience, by watching the development of a waste piece of ground into a fine garden.
One
of the definitions of activity found in Webster's dictionary borders very nearly upon the metaphysical, thus: "Change, development, or interplay not involving physical force; as, thought activity.
