A clergyman has undertaken to instruct your readers on the teaching of Christian Science, and as he does not claim to be able to do any of the works which Christian Scientists are doing today all over the world, we are wondering if he really understanding the words of his text—"By thy words thou shalt be justified, and be thy words thou shalt be condemned.
After reading an extract from a sermon delivered by a local clergyman, in which he makes the statement that Christian Science is a broad road to hell, I am reminded of the old saying that "history repeats itself.
To have lived through the age of materialism is a matter for satisfaction, and to have reached a day when a materialist does not exist, save a few youthful members of secularist societies who are fond of harrowing the souls of the frequenters of their favorite pothouses by the ignorant volubility of their atheism.
[In a lecture before the University of Berlin, Germany, where he is at present serving as exchange professor, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of Californis, made the following statements in regard to the Christian Science denomination.
To him who lives in consciousness of ever-present Love, whose every moment is devoted to good works, who lives to labor and labors to enjoy, there is no past, no future; there is only just today, the eternal now.
The
recent surprising feats of the aviators of America, England, France, and Germany serve to draw the thought more attentively to the spiritual aspiration which has been called forth by Christian Science.
