When
Truth first challenges the resisting ardor of the human will, there sometimes comes this hard question to prove the student: If God is of purer eyes than to look upon inquiry, why did He send a predestined and proclaimed Redeemer to save the human race from its obvious evil?
You will never be sorry for living a white life; for doing your level best; for your faith in humanity; for being kind to the poor; for looking before leaping; for hearing before judging; for being candid and frank; for thinking before speaking; for harboring clean thoughts; for discounting the tale-bearer; for stopping your ears to gossip; for asking pardon when in error; for being generous with an enemy; for being square in business deals; for giving an unfortunate fellow a lift; for promptness in keeping your promises; for putting the best possible construction upon the doings of others.
There is no record that Jesus or his followers ever cast out of any person anything physical, although they healed all manner of diseases, and those who were healed had life more abundantly.
Wherever women's interests are seriously considered it will be found that religion and good works have not been neglected, and naturally this is as much the case at the Scottish History Exhibition as it is elsewhere.
While appreciating the kindly tone of the article on Christian Science, I must point out that Christian Science, far from being akin to suggestion, is the one system which can lift man above being affected by it.
In discussing the question of mental suggestion, hypnotism, or any other of its various aliases, the one thing it is necessary to keep perpetually in the foreground is the fact of the utter unreality and powerlessness of evil.
One
afternoon, as I took up the Bible with a hungry longing to study its sacred pages more prayerfully, that I might learn more perfectly how to heal the sick and reform the sinner, my eyes rested upon the eighth chapter of Mark's gospel.
