Our esteemed contemporary, The Christian Science Monitor, celebrated yesterday the second anniversary of its birth with a very creditable and attractive issue of 96 pages.
After
a heavy fall of snow, which in turn was succeeded by a keen frost, I was much interested in watching the efforts of the men who had the work of removing the snow from the roads and footpaths.
While
conversing with one on whom the light of Christian Science was just dawning, the remark was made that in Christian Science devils, as referred to in the Scriptures, are regarded as evils.
In
starting out on the road to sell a line of merchandise, I should rather be possessed of my present knowledge and limited understanding of Christian Science, travel in a territory where the house I represent, the goods I sell, and myself are all unknown, than to have all the advantages in this respect without a knowledge of the power and availability of Christian Science to satisfy my needs, here and now.
The
writer, who was at the time the only Christian Scientist in the small country place where she had just then removed to live, received several visits from a local clergyman, a very highly esteemed and able man.
Not
infrequently the student of Christian Science is deprived of the larger realization of health and harmony which is man's birthright as a child of God, through a failure to discern and correct errors that may not stand out so prominently or seem so important as others to overcome.
At
a recent meeting of a prominent Church of Christ, Scientist, many plans were advanced whereby every one might do his or her share in supporting and promulgating the work of what might be called the Christian Science missionaries.
In the course of her remarks our critic says: "The Christian Scientists and other denominations that believe strongly in the power of 'suggestion' have a very large membership of men.
On reading the account of the coroner's inquest at Urmston, I feel sure that a great many others besides myself will feel indignant at the way in which the coroner and jury behaved.
