I always
look at The Christian Science Monitor from two view-points: first, that of a person who is trying to practise Christian Science; and second, that of a person who in working for several years upon daily newspapers had to read eight of them every day, and who knows how they are made.
Your editorial, embodying kindly advice to those exposed to the heat, and commending to them "to use a little Christian Science," has been read with much interest; and your good-natured irony certainly contains many elements of truth with regard to the potency and power of Mind.
Christian Science teaches belief in the Bible, and the first of the religious tenets of Christian Science reads as follows: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life".
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.
