Mental
training in any legitimate line increases one 's ability to understand, and, everything else being equal, a scholar should be more ready to perceive the beauties of Christian Science than an ignoramus; but it is oftentimes true that bigotry and self-conceit accompany what is commonly called knowledge, and thus prevent the reception of new ideas.
What
a help is even a little understanding of the Truth to a man in business; how it does calm and encourage and inspire confidence! The knowing that he is really spiritual and that there is no reality apart from Spirit and its reflection, actually makes a new man of him.
A friend
recently said to us: "It seems to me you would be more closely following Jesus, whom you profess to emulate, if you would go into the slums with your work, feeding the hungry and rescuing the perishing, instead of erecting magnificent and costly temples of worship throughout the country.
Let
us consider how newspaper is made in one of the great mills of the Adirondack Mountains, where the giant machines, rattling on, day after day, never stopping, are scarcely able to supply the demand of a single New York newspaper.
Concerning
the statement that "there is no disease," attributed to Christian Scientists, permit me to say that these words cannot be properly understood without some accompanying explanation.
The
position that Science and Health holds in relation to the Bible is that of a commentary, and from the number of commentaries that have been compiled, one must admit that there was a need of helps to the better understanding of the Scriptures.
At
an elevation of about six thousand feet above the sea, on the left of the road to Baalbek, is a group of the noblest specimens of the vegetable kingdom in the East, which are believed to be thousands of years old and the remnant of the far-famed cedars of Lebanon, of which David and Solomon sang, and from which came the timbers for the Temple.
