Christian Scientists, as a matter of fact, are really often quite well educated, and some of them, like our critic, have even read Plato, and Aristotle, and Leibnitz.
Most
people admit that the man who is doing the necessary material work entailed by present conditions should receive ample reward for his time, but many seem to think that any one who strives to lift his fellows toward that ideal condition where work will not be drudgery, but where all will rejoice in unity of purpose and action, in the loving expression of infinite bliss, and who spends his time in ameliorating untoward conditions to the best of his ability now, should receive but a mere pittance, a bare living in return for his labor.
When
Christian Scientists reflect upon what was a mere existence and compare it with the fuller life of joy and peace that they now know, they can but remember our Master's promise, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever," and realize the truth of our Leader's words, "This Comforter I understand to be divine Science".
"Commit
thy way unto the Lord," said the psalmist, and these words were quoted to the writer after she had attempted many times to commit her ways unto personality.
Nothing is more foreign to the teaching and practice of Christian Science than the endeavor to use it in the acquirement of any material thing, as such.
