Christian Science interprets the atonement as a successful effort on the part of Jesus to exemplify or prove to the world the true unity which exists between man and God, the unity and relationship of Father and child, of creator and creation.
We submit that every individual who forsakes sin does so on the basis of Christian Science teaching, that there is nothing in it, whether or not he knows anything about the letter of Christian Science.
A copy of your enterprising paper, the Morning Oregonian, has found its way to my table, away up here in Canada, and having duly read the various articles which were marked by some good friend in your fair city, I beg leave to submit a few comments upon the same.
The logic of Christian Science is the logic enforced by the greatest metaphysician the world has ever known, logic so clear that the humblest fisher-folk, perhaps the most uneducated men of their day, were able to accept it without any difficulty.
In
the Boston American of July 23, 1908, was an editorial accompanied by a cleverly drawn illustration,—a figure of a man, the familiar type of the unemployed of every city and of all time.
It
sometimes happens that the passages of the Bible which we have studied most will suddenly present to us a new meaning, unfold a thought we had not discovered before, and teach a new and beautiful lesson.
In
one of the popular dictionaries we find this definition: "Christianity is the spirit manifested by Jesus in his life, and which he commanded his followers to imitate.
After
having reached the conclusion that human existence was but "vanity and vexation of spirit," the wise Preacher of Israel thus earnestly addressed the rising generation of his time: "Remember now thy Creator in the day of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;.