As a teacher of Christian Science I should not hope to give an adequate meaning of its teaching by the abstract declaration, "There is no matter," for such a statement without previous preparation would mislead the student, It seems to declare the unreality of creation, when in fact it is intended only to deny the material, false conception of it.
To Christian Scientists the so-called miracles of Jesus were not supernatural, but divinely natural, the phenomena of Science, and were the proofs the Master gave that his works were of the Father.
Regardless of what one may believe or disbelieve concerning the claims made for Christian Science as a "medicine" for the curing of diseases and the conservation of healthy manhood, those who listened to the address of Bicknell Young last night were impressed with his scholarly manner and splendid ability to present his case, and his liberality based upon the basic teaching of that Science which he claims is the product of thought.
In the face of the numerous cases of healing by the power of prayer and belief and without the aid of drugs or surgical instruments that are reported in the daily papers with increasing frequency in these latter days, are we stubbornly to cling to nineteenth-century materialism and sit in the seat of the scorner, who says that it is all a fake, that he does not know why it is a fake, but that it must be a fake, and that therefore it is a fake?
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the understanding of divine Love unfolds itself in the purified consciousness, it becomes apparent that the love of personality must cease and the contracted human affections give place to all-inclusive devotion.