Any religious teaching which tries to bring heaven to us now; which is teaching us to be thoughtful of others; to bring happiness and to do good; to dispense in our daily lives sunshine and gladness, and to love our neighbor in the way the Master commanded us to do; and which is based absolutely upon the simple and sublime teachings of Jesus Christ, cannot be rightly termed false teaching.
It is not unusual in these days to read in modern medical magazines discussions on such subjects as "suggestive therapeutics," "faith-healing," "mesmerism," etc.
After
identifying ourselves with the Cause of Christian Science, one of the many things that we have to learn is the significance of the question of giving, and that it is largely a question of education.
In
a recent criticism of Christian Science by a well-known religious writer we were told that we are to "make disease minister to the higher life of the spirit.
In
reading the story of the temptation in the wilderness, as given in Matthew's Gospel, it is apparent that there were no witnesses to the colloquy between Jesus and Satan, and for this experience to be known it must have been related by Jesus to his disciples.
It is well understood by Christian Scientists that what the material senses behold of the universe is simply a finite conception of that which has spiritual reality and identity.
If a physician is competent to judge and testify "that if proper medical aid had been called in time, the patient could have been saved"—how does he recognize the critical moment?
The
lesson of Christian Science, illustrated throughout its practice in the healing of sin, disease, poverty, and sorrow, is that the benign power of Christianity blesses mankind only in the measure of its application; that its redemptive truth must be utilized in the destruction of evil, after our Master's example, in order to realize its efficacy.
