In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

An Interesting Letter

The following extract from a letter of John C.
Much depends in this life upon one's ability to see things.
Whatever may be believed about Christian Science in the form of an objection, it is at least free from the charge of inconsistency, Therefore to take a word, or partial sentence, here and there from its text-book, and construct from that a garbled and obnoxious mis-statement of its teaching —thus alleging inconsistency —is to remind one of the story of the fratricide who pleaded Biblical authority for his deed, and when asked to furnish it, pointed out a passage in Genesis which reads, "Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him," and from Luke another which reads, "Do thou likewise.
I want to say that there is power in prayer, and that we have a God who can answer prayer.
We are always pleased to have one admit, as our critic has done, that even part of the teaching of Christian Science is true, especially the fact that Jesus' "chief aim was the complete salvation of man," "not his soul only, but his body as well.
That much persecuted and maligned body of intelligent men and women calling themselves Christian Scientists are justly proud of a sermon recently preached by Rev.
According to the Century Dictionary, science is defined as, "Knowledge; comprehension or understanding of facts or principles.

"Undeniable Facts"

[The following excerpt is from a letter by John Brooks Leavitt, Counselor at Law, New York, published in a recent issue of The Church Standard.

A Reminder from the Past

In reading of the persecutions suffered by some of the first translators of the Bible, and then taking a look into present conditions, we ought to be filled with gratitude for the freedom we now enjoy,—a freedom almost unknown during many past centuries of darkness.
No well-informed person.

From our Exchanges

Briefly, then, we find happiness to be normal for man, and the desire for it to be a law of his being and God-bestowed; we find mortal existence to be a failure so far as any permanent happiness is concerned, and to ultimate in defeat and death; we find that spiritual existence, though held merely as a future possibility, has given men courage and constancy, through ceaseless endeavor, to strive to make real, to some extent at least, a spiritual existence here and now, in flat defiance of material concepts and in the face of all logic based upon them.
A few years ago a lady interested in Christian Science donated to the library of The National Military Home, Ohio, near Dayton, four copies of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.