How
grand in its utter simplicity is the Gospel narrative of the birth of Jesus! Can any description, in its entire absence of pomp of words, compare with it, and yet nothing is lacking necessary to convey the whole scene to the mind of the most unimaginative.
The
daily newspaper of the Christian Science denomination is now a year and a half old, and it seems good to look back over the period of its existence, to see what the results have been and whether they are commensurate with the outlay.
To
persons whose impressions of Christian Science have been gained from outside observation instead of practical experience, it is sometimes a matter of wonderment that the adherents of this faith devote so much time to the study of the Bible, with Science and Health and other writings of Mrs.
With regard to the lecturer's explanation that the rapid spread of the movement was due to the promise it held out of "relief from bodily pain and sickness," let me say that an important feature, indeed the basis of the teachings of Christian Science, is the understanding that the patient treated in Christian Science must be morally regenerated as well as healed physically.
Christian Scientists do not say that there is no pain; in fact, we admit that to the man who is suffering pain it is extremely real; but, unlike our critic, we are unwilling to attribute that pain to God or to hold Him responsible for the sins of the world which are daily committed, and we do say that when man reaches the correct understanding of God and when he reaches out to Him and trusts in Him for the alleviation of pain, that he does obtain the relief from pain and rises to the consciousness of its absence, and therefore its nothingness.
In
the parable of the unjust steward Jesus made use of this expression: "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
