The world is accustomed to employ words without weighing accurately their meaning, and, especially in matters of religion, is wont to uphold views which closer scrutiny reveals as mutually destructive.
Our critic's hypothetical case of the supposed leper who met the Christian Scientist is so absurd as to be scarcely worth noticing except for the reason that it might be taken by some to be a correct presentation of the attitude of Christian Scientists toward those who are afflicted with contagious disease.
Christian Science is the religion of love; therefore it is readily appreciated that its manifestation is not found in an indulgence in human differences, but rather consists in an adherence to the golden rule, whereby respect is shown for the individual rights of each to select for himself the healing system or religion he desires.
The
realization of the omnipresence of God, as taught in Christian Science, carries with it immediate healing and cleansing power, and the demonstration of this truth causes the heart to overflow with gratitude to the one who was pure enough and near enough to God to discern this Christ-ideal.
A short time ago the battleship Delaware sailed up the Delaware river and anchored close by Wilmington to pay her respects to the people of the state whose name she bears.
Mortal
man, while tacitly admitting that there is a creator who is good, nevertheless imagines that His power is either inoperative or spasmodic, and that there is another power, that of evil, which is always operative, and that this so-called power is as great or greater than good.
The
newcomer to London is rare who does not receive as his first lasting impression of the metropolis the efficiency of its big, blue, benevolent policeman,—"Bobbie," as he is known half the Anglo-Saxon world over.
