It
is being daily borne in upon Christian Scientists, very largely no doubt through the instrumentality of the Monitor, that the Christian Science movement is inevitably destined to take a leading place among the forces which are shaping the development of human thought in its emergence, socially and economically, from the restraints of the past into a better conception of liberty and freedom.
One of the most forceful proverbs of Scripture reads on this wise, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
In a recent issue of a religious paper published in Dayton, Ohio, the editor writes on the subject of "Final Authority," and after referring to Catholics and Mormons, says: "The Christian Science people say it [the final authority] is Mrs.
That Christian Scientists are "deaf to the world's cry of pain and poverty" is an anomalous charge in view of the fact that the whole trend of their teaching is toward the alleviation and ultimate abolition of these very things, and its adherents are constantly going about doing good, in accordance with the command of the Master to "heal" as well as to "preach.
Some
time ago I asked my husband to make me a softwood board about twenty-six inches long and six inches wide and to put hooks and wire on it so that it could be hung on the wall.
