In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

UNITY WITH THE READERS

In the book of Isaiah there appears a prophecy of the mission and message of the Readers in the Christian Science churches, and of the Scriptural selections, the Lesson-Sermon, and the hymns of devout meditation and scientific declaration, which unite to voice that glorious message to mankind: "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" This proclamation of the divine supremacy, or "the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter".
In humble gratitude for a new understanding of God as only good, and for many personal healings and other blessings, I add this statement of what even a slight understanding of Christian Science has accomplished, in the hope that it may help to establish the reign of peace and harmony in some other home.

THE SPIRIT OF GIVING

Christian Scientists have been so bountifully blessed, physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually, that their gratitude finds spontaneous expression in giving, and, since gratitude is an enduring virtue, their giving does not cease.
St.

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[Watchman.
At a meeting of the California Medical Society, Christian Science was referred to as being one of the forms of "quackery" which today threatens to lessen the physician's opportunity for earning a livelihood.
If, as you suggest, Christian Science is irrational in its disregard of medical advice and help, it surely follows that to be a Christian it is necessary to be irrational.
Our critic asks: "Is Science and Health divinely inspired and of equal authority with the Bible?
In examining the report in these columns of the last of several sermons, the point that arrests attention, as perhaps most directly contradictory to the plain teaching of Christian Science, is the assertion that the healing work accomplished in Christian Science is the result of "suggestion.
Over four decades ago an American woman, by the discernment of the spiritual law, as clearly defined to her as was the law of the falling apple to Newton, resurrected from the grave of human belief the scientific law of the Christ-healing.
It is not supposed by Christian Scientists that the diseases of animals are produced by conscious fear or sin in them, as is the case many times, but not always, with human beings.
The belief in the power of witchcraft, and the belief in the power of malicious animal magnetism, is one and the same belief, and it has its basis solely in the conception of a power or force opposed to God.