The caustic attack made on Christian Science by an evangelist during his meetings, and the subsequent comments pro and con, led me to make a first-hand investigation into the real tenets of Christian Science to see whether their doctrines were as damnable and unchristian as they have been painted, and as I, too, not long ago believed them to be.
When
Jesus pronounced his commendation of the widow's mite he uttered words destined to be of perennial comfort to those whose offerings seem necessarily diminutive.
One
of the greatest blessings which the understanding of Christian Science unfolds to the earnest and faithful student is the positive knowledge that all right endeavor is rewarded, no matter how much opposition there may seem to be.
In
commencing the study of Christian Science, and sometimes after one has spent considerable time in the endeavor to grasp its teachings, the suggestion may come to the student that this Science is either hard to understand or that he is not one of the favored few who can understand it and be benefited by it.
According to a report in a late issue, the chairman of the Congregational Union Assembly at Pendleton allowed himself, in the course of an address dealing with the ability of Christianity to fulfil the requirements of a world's religion, to express his not very complimentary estimate of the intellectual capacities of Christian Scientists.
The teachings of Christian Science relative to Jesus the Christ, and with respect to his relationship to God, are more satisfactory, reasonable, logical, and practical from the view-point of Christian Scientists, than are those of what is called orthodox theology.
