The
public teachers, pastors, and others who decry Christian Science, have need to be careful lest the arguments they use wrest from them historical Christianity as well as practical and operative Christianity.
One
day, in passing the new edifice for The Mother Church now being built in Boston, it was observed that each stone was numbered so as to show the builder its proper place.
"Again
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls; who when he found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it.
If at this Christmas season those men and women upon whom fortune has smiled years of great prosperity feel moved to make the occasion as joyous as it can be made for their less fortunate fellow-beings, let them consider the wisdom of converting the old spirit of feudal patronage into the living, modern spirit of democracy.
It has been urged by many among those who have not experienced the boundless joy of this spiritual healing, that it is not the Christ healing because not instantaneous and not always successful; and also that if Christian Science can heal one it can heal the world.
Christian Scientists do not consider that the healing of the sick through divine aid is any more of a miracle than is the healing or reforming of the sinner through the same means.
It
is safe to say that the foundation of all our striving, of all our ambition and hope in Christian Science, is the desire for perfection; and those who are trying to be Christian Scientiests should have, through its teachings, a larger conception of the inclusiveness and scope of the word.
