Christian Scientists
are sometimes accused of being unfeeling because when their attention is called to some instance of seeming suffering or discord, they refuse to admit its reality by sympathizing with it.
While
passing a quiet hour recently under some beautiful trees near the city of Washington, I saw several penciled inscriptions upon some pine boards laid out for a table for picnickers, which had evidently been written there by those who were whiling away the long summer afternoons.
To
a philosophical farmer weeds may teach many lessons; for example: the necessity of tilling the soil so that the largest possible quantity of water and plant food may be conserved for the use of the crop; that productive land is always ready and willing to work, even if its work is misdirected in weed production; and that the character and history of the land may be determined from the character and quality of weed growth.
An article in the October Arena has unwittingly exploited the supposed power of evil, so-called, and has conceded to this self-asserted and self-asserting phenomenon of mortal mind a place in human experience which it could not occupy without dethroning God, good, and robbing Him of His place as the one supreme infinite Mind who governs and guides the universe according to His will and pleasure, which will and pleasure must of necessity be in accord with His own divine nature.
The Christian Scientist yields place to no one in voicing appreciation of the self-sacrificing labors of the medical profession in their noble effors to stem the tide of humanity's ills.
Christian Science urges to a full faith and dependence on God for healing disease as well as sin, and in no way limits God's present availability, power, and willingness to help in every trouble.
