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.
One of the most rapidly increasing religious bodies in the world today is based on the belief that all calamity and evil and suffering is to be finally eliminated through an improved and uplifted thought about God and man's relation to Him, and a more perfect understanding and abiding faith in the Principle underlying and operating through that relation.
Only
as we learn to understand God and His relation to man, His idea, His image and likeness, can we intelligently appreciate the manifold blessings which our Leader, Mrs.
In
an obscure corner of the Louvre is a little picture, timid, almost awkward in execution, as though the hand of the artist had faltered under the intolerable burden of his aspiration, tarnished in color, its canvas petty and insignificant, yet so original in conception, so startling in its dramatic intensity that it is numbered among the masterpieces of a man whose absorbing passion was the expression of light.
Progress
in Christian Science is a process of awakening to the truth of being which was always true, because it existed always in divine Mind; and the student soon finds that his spiritual development is according to law, even as the Master said, "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Worthy
members of all Christian churches will applaud the ring of loyalty recently expressed by a conscientious church-member in the following words: "Personally, I love my church and her sacraments too much ever to give her up, but I welcome gladly anything within her province that can be of use to any living soul in any way-spiritually, mentally, or physically.
Christian Scientists know that their teaching is radically different on some lines from that of others, and that a superficial reading of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," fits no one to judge it or the practice of its followers.
