It is the practice of all true Christian Scientists to be charitable and forgiving towards all men, even to those who misunderstand and misrepresent their religion, knowing that this misunderstanding can be better overcome by a kindly presentation of facts, than by taking up the sword of hostile argument.
The help obtained from a change of environment or of sensations is from its inherent nature temporary, and sooner or later the patient must meet the problem again, as the fundamental error has not been overcome, nor can such assistance permanently change a man's moral nature.
While
at work removing the winter's covering of leaves and straw from flower beds and vines, I found in my wildflower corner this beautiful spring greeting: a single hepatica one of the earliest of the spring flowers, tired of its imprisonment among layers of leaves, had forced itself in its efforts for liberation, through six tough brown leaves.
When
the wonderful facts of Christian Science first became evident to me, and while trying to understand that the unseen things were the real and that substance was in the things hoped for, I happened to read one of the works of the great French astronomer, Camille Flammarion, and I found it most helpful in many ways.
In
my limited knowledge of Christian Science and its teachings, nothing has impressed me more, or with greater favor, than its construction of the words and meaning of the Lord's Prayer.
