How
many of us have escaped the temptation to think and say that if only a certain difficulty in our outward circumstances were removed, we should get on so much better in Christian Science! Are not these the "stones" in our path which appear to make the journey hard, laborious, painful, and slow?
There
is no time in the history of Christian Science when its students do not need to bear in mind that this movement is founded upon divine Principle and not upon personality.
The effort to live up to the high ideal as taught by Christ Jesus is the daily work of Christian Scientists who are striving to follow the commands of the Master.
The statute of California contains an act for the regulation of the practice of medicine, concluding with a proviso "that nothing herein shall be held to apply or to regulate any kind of treatment by prayer.
One who could not demonstrate a problem in arithmetic would not be considered proficient to interpret the principle of numbers, and as these gentlemen [of a ministerial union] cannot demonstrate the teachings of Christian Science, they certainly are not qualified to sit in judgment upon those who can.
