Unusual
space is given in this issue to matter pertaining to medical legislation, in view of the general educational need, and of the special significance of the subject to Christian Scientists.
The
Apostle James says, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The
teaching of Christian Science has altered our entire thought with regard to God's will to meet our wants, and we are now assured that the divine purpose embraces the satisfaction of every human need, and that every evil shall cease; we therefore no longer ask, with timid apprehension, and much uncertainty, as to whether our healing from sickness as well as sin be according to God's will, but we come to God with confidence that we are fulfilling the divine will in so far as we gain the grace that shall banish all discord and disease from our experience.
The one important reason for a genuine unity of Christians is expressed by Christ himself when he prayed for his disciples, "that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
In asking that they be given control of the issuance, or refusal to issue, of Christian Science certificates to heal the medical doctors have not professed to know much about prayer.
Since the McMullen bill to prohibit Christian Science healing in Nebraska has been pending in the Senate, having first passed the House, there have been many protests received against its favorable consideration.
Lady Victoria Murray, First Reader of the newly erected church in Victoria Park, Manchester, forwards us the following letter, which is sufficiently lucid to speak for itself:—
The
statement that a Christian Scientist's religion is applicable to the every-day affairs of the business man, usually arouses, in the minds of those not possessing an understanding of this Science, opposition varying from incredulity to downright condemnation of such a course as being a sacrilegious desecration of sacred things for money-getting.
