For centuries Christendom has read that often repeated saying of Jesus Christ to the woman of Samaria, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth," and has gone on its way, insisting that God made the material universe, without apparently heeding the confusion to which this leads.
Where "Observer" refers to Christ in speaking of the present means of checking diphtheria, we are once more forced to conclude that, in his opinion, if Christ were living today, he would find it wholly unnecessary to heal the sick, as he would find the present means of cure and prevention so wonderful and so effective in keeping well the entire population, that he would not only fail to find any sick people, but would have to acknowledge that the present scientific method of cure and prevention had him bested in anything he could offer in the way of relief for disease and suffering.
Our critic's lecture, like his book, is full of misunderstanding; not all his own, but the errors of many ill-advised critics before him, who like himself have never demonstrated Christian Science.
While
silently pondering the psalmist's words, "Be still, and know that I am God," which become more beautiful through the spiritual understanding gained from the study of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
In
thinking over the spurious laws by which we have believed ourselves to be governed, one is surprised to see how much is conceded to one's surroundings, how many times they are made the scapegoat for the troubles, difficulties, tastes, and habits of the human family.
Among
the mural decorations in the Congressional Library at Washington there is an epigram by the German mystic, Novalis, who held that religion without a church was impossible, which reads, "There is but one temple in the universe, and that temple is the body of man.
