In the city of Boston the initial step has been taken in a movement that promises to be of great interest to the makers and the readers of newspapers the world over.
Suppose that the government should demand that not only beef and beans must be true to the label, but that all labels must tell the truth! What trouble there would be with some political and religious labels.
A clergyman is credited with taking the following text: "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing;" and then likening Christian Scientists and others to these Athenians, because they agree on one thing, viz.
Between denominational churches letters of dismissal from one congregation to another, or one denomination to another, are matters of frequent occurrence.
One
of the most cherished recollections of the writer is that of listening to a sermon from the text, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
The
word "breadth," as descriptive of a mental attitude, is commonly accepted to mean that liberal and withal judicial state of mind which, through a larger view and more generous interpretation, is freed from the limitations imposed by bias.
The
story is told of a man who had been cast away on an island inhabited by a barbarous race, that he pitied the natives, whose crude conditions expressed neither practical intelligence nor sense of beauty, and whose energies were wasted in the mere propagation of a mean existence.
Many
people, when they first begin the study of Christian Science, find themselves in discordant circumstances and in surroundings which do not seem conducive to the study and practice of Science, and yet each one has to learn that he is but dwelling in his own state of consciousness, and that the change of circumstances must come from within and not from without.
