Solomon's
wise counsel, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding," turns thought away from the smallness of human effort to the greatness of God's work, to the spiritual man and the spiritual universe, which we must understand in order to be perfect,—to have that mind "which was also in Christ Jesus.
There
are some remarkable record of the method pursued more than five hundred years before the coming of our Master, in binding men with fetters of self-imposed rules and customs.
The fundamental teaching of Christian Science that God is All in all, is Scriptural; hence all that really exists is God and His infinite manifestation.
Christian Scientists do not claim to possess supernatural gifts, but they do claim that the teachings of Christ, in their application to the healing of disease, are as practical to-day as they were when our Saviour and his disciples dispelled sickness with the Word.
A Christian Scientist could have no fear of evil thought, for he understands how to overcome evil with good, neither could he resort to evil mental practice, for in so doing he would be obliged to depart from Christian Science, substituting a wicked mental practice.
In
reading the 11th chapter of John's gospel, I have been impressed with the simplicity and lack of detail in Jesus' speech, as there recorded, regarding Lazarus' sickness, death, and burial.
One
of the objections made by materialists to Christian Science is that a God who could relieve mankind of the ills from which they suffer, and would not, unless His conditions whimsical tyrant.
