Whether
right or wrong in their peculiar views—which seem absurd to many—the Christian Scientists in some things set religionists in general and the world at large a commendable example.
Christian Science
is absolute: it teaches that Jesus, the first great demonstrator of Christian Science, knew the absolute principle of scientific being, and through this understanding he overcame all forms of error, sin, disease, and death.
The habit of hiding coin and other valuables in secret, out-of-the-way places, seems to have been very general in past times when security vaults were unknown and pillages were frequent.
It is gradually dawning upon engineers the world over that the world's coal supply is not likely to last forever, and that the time is not very far distant when artificial fuel must be resorted to.
What a wonderful example of Christian courage and childlike faith was manifested by Chrysostom, who, when threatened banishment by the Roman Emperor, said : "Thou canst not, for the world is my Father's house; thou canst not banish me.
If
Christian Scientists do not watch the "little things," but allow them to pass undiscovered, these "little things" become avenues for error to effect its work later on, and they will then wonder why it is that they are having "such a hard time.
