As each week the Spirit of truth, through our wonderful Lesson-Sermons, unfolds the beauties as well as the power of the Scripture to heal, illumine, and bless humanity; as through the interpretations of our text book the "hidden mysteries" are explained and the Word demonstrated in the healing of sin and disease, we realize more and more that the prophetic hour in its fulfilment has arrived, "and they shall all be taught of God.
The moral consciousness of the world lies fallow for the call of one who shall be so filled with the power of the Spirit that he shall be completely indifferent to that whole mass of stuff which criticism is discrediting, and who shall dare to make his appeal to the moral idealism of mankind independent of verbiage.
The dilettante may assure himself he knows all about Christian Science, even that he knows more about how the work is done than the Christian Scientist himself, but really no one is competent to say what constitutes Christian Science healing unless he has actually demonstrated the rules laid done in the Christian Science text-book.
It should not strain our credulity to believe the Scriptural teachings, "With God all things are possible," and God is "a very present help in trouble.
IF
we wish to be true followers of our great Elder Brother, Jesus, should we not strive to emulate his powerful example of simplicity in speech when delivering God's message to our fellow-men?
THE
writer has had some strenuous experiences along the line of adjusting supply and demand, which, though not expedient to enumerate in this article, have, nevertheless, been of great value to him in determining the significance of existence, apart from money-getting.
One of those great periods of emancipation is upon us now, a great uprising of the religious instincts of men in defiance of the prescribed forms of thought and means of culture.
