The symposium in a recent issue of The Examiner, in which Christian Science is frequently referred to, is interesting as an evidence of the fact that after forty years of Christian Science practice in this country, during which time practically every kind of functional and organic disease has been healed through divine power alone, the ministers of some of the churches are admitting that the healing of the body as well as the saving of the soul is included in the Christian ministry, and should be practised to-day if the teachings and example of Christ Jesus and his early disciples are to be followed.
In a sermon, a synopsis of which recently appeared in the News, the clergyman is reported as deploring the fact that a young boy and his parents sought God, rather than the medical doctor, in his affliction.
As we are thrown into daily contact with people at large we wonder how it is that some of them not only accomplish all that comes their way to be done, but still have sufficient time and energy to help others to accomplish their daily quota of work.
Jesus'
saying recorded in Mark, that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, suggests the divine purpose infolded in the command to keep holy one day out of every seven.