Human
language at its very best, and as best understood, is indeed but a feeble vehicle for the transmission of the truths of Christian Science to the human consciousness.
The
command of Jesus that we should seek "first the kingdom of God," has since his time been deprived of its full significance, owing to the fact that the rest of the verse has been practically rendered, "then seek all these things" instead of "and all these things shall be added unto you.
It is no part of the duty of Christian Scientists to engage in uncalled-for criticism of those who are striving in their own way to ameliorate human suffering.
Law defined scientifically is the unvarying recurrence of phenomena, and is expressed perfectly in that verse of the epistle of James which declares, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
In metaphysics there are two distinct systems of thought, one of which must be true and real and the other false and unreal; the two positions are in contradistinction one to the other, and hence a third theoretic system, a combination or compromise of the two, is unreasonable, impossible, and untenable.
