Failing
the spirit of generosity and compassion within, it is well-nigh impossible to recognize, certainly to appreciate, a manifestation of it from without, even when it is personally presented for our consideration.
One
of the compensations of the smoky English town where the writer lives is the spring collection of modern pictures, which is open to the public free during that season of the year, when the promise of life is renewed in many a lesson which these pictures have to tell.
The interest in the teachings of Christian Science and its unparalleled growth throughout the civilized world are due, in a very large degree, to the physical healings experienced by those who in their need have turned to it when all material remedies have failed.
In the report which appeared in a recent issue of your paper concerning the remarks made by a clergyman, I note that Christian Science came in for more or less of criticism.
The supposition of our critic that Christian Scientists do not believe in the Bible is proved erroneous when it is known that no body of Christian people makes a closer daily study of the Bible than do the Christian Scientists.
The letter of a critic in a recent issue of the Telegram manifests such extraordinary confusion of thought on the subject of Christian Science, that I should be obliged if you would permit me to make this clear.
In
bygone days there was a generally accepted theory that a man's character was decided by the preponderance of certain elements in the body, certain "humors" which, proportionately combined, produced given mental characteristics or temperament; for example, the phlegmatic, the nervous, and the artistic temperaments.
