Unbiased investigation will prove beyond question that Christian Scientists are neither "weak-minded" nor "easily tempted by illusive bait," but that they have embraced this faith because it has been proven to them through actual experience to have met their needs, in sickness as well as in health, in a more practical and efficacious way than did the systems previously employed.
The material senses of the people amongst whom Jesus moved rarely rose to a clear perception of his words; and so, telling them that if they could not believe for the word's sake they must found their belief upon the works, he healed the sick and raised the dead and walked upon the waters, breaking every physical law in demonstration of the fact that those laws were not God's laws, and that a knowledge of God's law—that is, the spiritual law—would give man the dominion which the Bible declared God had given to him.
In
the first book of Kings we read that "Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side,.
He
was a bright young fellow, full of hope, cheerful, patient, and almost happy, as he lay on his none too comfortable couch, with surroundings that indicated poverty, but an earnest attempt to look fine.
Love is stronger than hate in building up a business; the honest man sleeps more peacefully than does the dishonest man; sunshine is more conducive to happiness than clouds, and cheerfulness is a better tonic for life than is misery.
Christian Science is the effort to give back to the world that supreme consciousness of God which made the first century of the Christian era the age of miracles.
Through the medium of a friend, we have received a copy of The Christian Science Monitor, a twelve-page daily which is the organ of the Christian Scientists published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, at Boston, U.
