A well-known
preacher once said in a sermon that he did not believe that life after death would be "an eternal sitting in damp clouds, playing on harps, and singing praises to God," as so many people seemed to think.
"The
seekers of the light are one;" so reads the loved hymn of Samuel Longfellow, and this thought finds honest response in the heart of the Christian Scientist, for he is engaged in discovering those things in which he is at-one with God and with his fellow-men.
Our critic cannot measure Christian Science accurately by his yardstick, for if he only understood the teachings of Christian Science he could make proof of his understanding by following Christ Jesus in doing the works of healing the sick, and recall the words of St.
The best way to make the Cause of Christian Science grow in this community is to attack it after the style of the man brought here by the Protestant ministers to "expose" it.
If it be true, as stated in the printed summary of a recent speech, that seventy thousand persons believe in Christian Science, the opinion of one man to the contrary is not necessarily conclusive.
All Christian Scientists are prepared to put to practical test the teachings of Christian Science in so far as they may apprehend and understand them, but this test of their knowledge of Christian Science does not consist in attempting foolhardy feats, but must be earnest, honest efforts to lift the burden of sin and suffering for themselves and others through obedience to the commandments of Jesus Christ, and in a spirit of humility and meekness endeavor by their lives to bring to this sin-sick world a fuller knowledge of the teachings of Jesus Christ, whereby men may obtain present salvation from sickness and suffering as well as from sin.
