In
frequent trips across the continent, both in the United States and Canada, during which it has been my privilege to visit many Christian Science churches, ranging in size from the stately temple of The Mother Church in Boston to the small newly-formed society where only a handful was gathered together "in his name," I have been deeply impressed with the steady growth of Christian Science and of all the evident blessings that are at hand for the field throughout the entire world.
In
one of Jesus' parables we read: "This know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Every
worker in the field of Christian Science has doubtless found it difficult to impress upon others the important teaching that it is spiritual being and not the material body with which we are to reckon.
The recent controversy over the merits and demerits of healing, engendered by sermons from a local pulpit, would perhaps not justify any further comment, as it has been profitably considered in communications and editorials from many angles.