Real
success, which can be won only through the practice of honesty, sincerity, perseverance, and courage, is the guerdon that the golden rule ensures, when practically carried out as the maxim of business and social life.
Perhaps
the most difficult task which confronts one who is trying to be a Christian Scientist, is that of giving testimony at the Wednesday evening meetings.
When
in every phase of human experience men learn to practise the command of the Saviour, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," then will the earth "be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
The
belief that life and intelligence are material, moving in limited personal orbits, and that, therefore, men can live and act independently of God, is the supreme folly of mortals.
Treatment in Christian Science consists of eliminating fear from the thought of the patient, uplifting his faith and hope to a final realization of God's power to heal, and thus produces on the body the effects of normal functional action.
"Half the people of the present day only imagine that they are ill, and the present fad of the medical profession in adding disease to disease has led many people to call in physicians where they would formerly have applied a little common sense and been well in a few days.
Our critic says that preachers, editors, physicians and philosophers have been for years trying to show the "deluded people," who are carried away by Christian Science the errors and deception of this "despicable superstition," but that "in spite of all their efforts it grows by leaps and bounds.
A clergyman tells us that "the duty of the Christian minister is to warn people against danger and error," and he quotes the Scripture, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
