To
mothers, and to teachers in our Sunday schools, there comes frequently a very intense longing to be better able to express to the little ones the means by which they themselves are enabled to quiet the uprisings of mortal mind and to quell the disturbances of human desire and temperament.
Christian Scientists
who are readers of the periodicals which the wise forethought of our Leader prompted her to provide for their instruction and guidance, certainly have not lacked plain and forceful reminders of the demands, opportunities, possibilities, and duties that are brought to them in these times.
Certain
metaphysical thinkers are employing the phrase, "the eternal regress," to designate the supposed futility of pursuing a class of metaphysical questionings.
In the "scientific statement of being," which will be found in Science and Health on page 468, we read as follows: "Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error.
Christian Science does not teach that sin, sickness, and death are not a part of the experience of this mortal existence, and no one knows better than a Christian Scientist how real pain and suffering are to the one afflicted.
There is no word which has been more misused than the word "love;" even honorable and religious-minded people have, generally speaking, little understanding of it, and are often taken in by a sentimental and emotional substitute.
The writer of the article on Christian Science, in a recent issue, has embarked on a criticism of Christian Science teaching which is dependent entirely on an understanding of the meaning to be applied to the word faith.
