Perhaps
no story in the Old Testament conveys so many or so important lessons to present-day humanity, and especially to those people who have become interested in Christian Science, as does the story of Joseph.
The
light which Christian Science throws on the ten commandments is so illuminating that the limited, material meaning attached to them by the teaching of the schools is changed into what seems an illimitable statement of spiritual law.
In a recent issue an article was printed under the heading of "The Little Talk," in which the writer seems to imply that Christian Science and imagination are one and the same thing.
It seems to be a fair assumption that the different reasons offered by the political doctors are presented, "not for their intrinsic value," but solely for the purpose of justifying, if they can, their campaign for a federal department of medicine which would enthrone, with autocratic powers, the allopathic.
Whether or not the Owen bill for a federal medical bureau would result in officializing nation-wide the "regular" medical cult, that impression has at any rate been created by the American association of the cult, or some of its dashing leaders.
If a citizen of Louisiana could be imprisoned for ninety days, or made to pay a fine of one hundred dollars, or subjected to both penalties for making a prayer to God at the bedside of a sick person for the sufferer's recovery and restoration to health, anywhere in Louisiana, one of the most monstrous outrages upon human liberty and on freedom of conscience imaginable would be perpetrated in this highly civilized and enlightened state and city.
Christian Science is absolutely unallied to the occult, but declares the nature and presence of one infinite God who is Truth and Love, and whose benign influence is available and acceptable to clear-minded men and women.
