A story on the subject of Christian Science has been communicated to the press which is a very good specimen of the way in which prejudice is manufactured.
The gentleman who conducts "The Listener" in the Sunday News-Advertiser apparently labors under a misapprehension regarding the Christian Science movement and its methods, judging by his remarks in the issue of Nov.
A first
winter in Canada has shown us many new wonders, and we are more than ever grateful for Christian Science, which deepens our love for all that is beautiful and good, and teaches us to grasp some of the spiritual messages which nature brings to us.
Just
as Moses led the children of Israel triumphantly through the wilderness into the promised land, so Christian Science, in this age, is leading humanity gently, lovingly through the great mental desert of human hopes and fears, up to the glory which God hath prepared for them that love Him.
In
the second chapter of his gospel Luke gives us a simple little narrative of which one never tires, interwoven as it is with one's earliest recollections of childhood joys and of the great anniversaries of Love's festival with its lights and universal cheer: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
We
had met an old friend in the park, where the beds were ablaze with the loveliest tulip blooms it had ever been our lot to see in the smoky manufacturing town where we live.
The devil, as a deception, a lie, or personified evil, is indeed frequently spoken of in the New Testament, but it is significant that the methods described for his overthrow are wholly mental.
