The
question sometimes arises as to how far one is governed by his past history and religious inheritance; how much is due to established customs, and to what degree the past should be allowed to weigh against the privileges of the present.
It
is surprising but true that people who express joy and sunshine so naturally and freely in the home are often the most reticent when it comes to speaking in public.
The
faithful Christian Scientist who continually prays with the psalmist: "Creat in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me," has opened the floodgates of heaven, through which pours out an inexhaustible and never-failing stream of love; the love that today as of yore "healeth all thy diseases" as well as "forgiveth all thine iniquities.
The
gracious work of Christian Science is manifest in the redemption of men from the control of habits which, though undesirable, they once considered fixed.
Our critic states that the "Christian religion was built upon Christ," and leads his hearers to believe that Christian Science rejects the teaching of Christ, whereas every student of Christian Science accepts Christ as "the way, the truth, and the life.
You are to be commended for the very fine report published in your columns of the lecture recently delivered in the Melbourne town hall on Christian Science.
If the reverend gentleman, our critic, had made even a fair investigation of Christian Science, he would see that it is the exact opposite of hypnotism, alias malicious animal magnetism, and that it has no more relationship or likeness to it than the wonders wrought by Moses had to the necromancy of the magicians.
A recent issue contains a paragraph entitled "Mental Healing," in which psychotherapy and Christian Science are spoken of as nearly related to one another.
