Several
years ago a friend made the remark that it would be very tiresome and monotonous if people were all good, all alike, as they would have to be if they believed in Christian Science.
It
is well known to the student of Christian Science that individual thought expands to the fuller and higher meanings of the terms employed in expressing the truth, as the study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook is earnestly pursued.
[During the past few years the governor of Massachusetts has annually issued a proclamation calling upon the people to assemble in their churches for the observance of Lincoln Day, and because of this The Mother Church and the branch churches in this state have each year held an appropriate service.
All Christians will concede that Christ Jesus understood and demonstrated the law of God in his mighty works among men, and he said of each disciple who believed.
It is never possible to be perfectly sure what an individual writer means by "faith-healing;" but if, as is commonly the case, the bishop meant the prayer to God to remove something He has either directly caused or indirectly permitted, then Christian Science has no affinity with it.
It
was a late autumn afternoon, and the warm glow of the setting sun was blending the tints of tree, and earth, and sky in a flood of golden harmony, while speaking to the awakened consciousness of the deeper harmonies of Truth and Love.
When
Jacob was called to "go up to Bethel" he realized that a change of raiment was necessary both for himself and his household, and he said to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments.
