In an interesting resume of a Whitsunday sermon, the preacher appears to have discriminated between the joyous atmosphere of the early Christianity, when the church was full of life triumphant, and the modern clerical visitation of the sick, in which the minister of religion, who has been called in after the doctors have done all they could, must not come to the bedside as the agent of the life-giving Christ; all energy in that direction having been abdicated in favour of the "cranky followers of Mrs.
To the human sense of things, accustomed to look through the lens of desire rather than of worthiness, it may seem at times that God is indifferent to the human appeal, if He does not actually withhold His blessing; but in the light of Christian Science we see that from God's standpoint, that is, from the standpoint of the perfect creator, man is ever in a perfect state.
According to the report of his sermon to the Medical Congress, the Bishop of Liverpool unfortunately thought it necessary to preface his statement of the truth he had discerned in Christian Science with some rather strong expressions in condemnation of that religion.
