Every
Christian and believer in the Bible will admit the statement that God is Love, and yet how many pureminded Christian men and women deny in their extremity the very statement they know to be true.
We
should not sentence ourselves by admitting traits of character or a disposition adverse to the Christ character, any more than we should admit the reality of sickness and its many phases.
It
was my privilege to attend the World's Congress Auxiliary, which was held in Chicago in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893; also to be present at the meeting of the Parliament of Religions, when the address written by our Leader marked an epoch in the world's history.
No one can find fault with the statement that "the doctrine of no-doctoring is not doctoring, and of doing without medicine is not medical," unless reliance upon God, as taught by Christianity, can be defined as medical practice.
Occasionally
there appear in some papers uncharitable reflections upon the church or organization popularly known as the Christian Science Church, its teachings, leaders, and followers.
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.
