Christian Science is the effort to make the teaching of Jesus as practical in the twentieth century as it was in the first, and it must be remembered that the practice of Christianity in the first century applied not only to the broad question of human progress, but to every minutiæ of human existence.
In proof of our statement that Christian Science is Christianity pure and unadulterated, it is necessary to consider two points,—first, what constitutes Christianity; second, does Christian Science embody Christianity?
When
I first began to attend the service at The Mother Church, I was a member of an orthodox church, and as the Reader announced the author's name at the reading of the Christian Science text-book I thought there was too much emphasis laid on it.
I have
been surprised to find some misapprehension in regard to the right manner of studying the Sunday Bible-Lessons, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly.
Many readers of the fourth chapter of John think that in saying, "Thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband," our Master administered a merited rebuke to the Samaritan woman; but a study of the Scriptures in the light of our text-book shows this to be but one of the many instances where Jesus used a familiar material symbol to illustrate a spiritual truth.
Indifferent
toleration of the imperfect conditions of human life, or joyless resignation to the belief that such conditions are inevitable, may be called content; but the term is properly applied only to the glad satisfaction that one feels when he has learned the real purpose of life and labor, and is working toward the fulfilment of this purpose.
In
Luke's Gospel we read that when the Pharisees objected to the acclamations of the multitude, on the occasion of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the Master said.
How
to get "out with the sinner and in with the saint" is a perplexing problem prior to the advent of Christian Science in individual consciousness, but this Science begins at once to unfold to humanity the spiritual unity existing between God and man, and through such unfolding the unreal nature of so-called mortal life is brought to light.