From the love of liberty and, from what is rarer, the ability of organizing liberty in institutions, sprang the America of which we are so fondly proud.
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.