The
thought has presented itself: Do young Scientists fully realize that, in Christian Science, treatment does not change the condition of a person from illness to health, but that they simply reveal and bring out the perfection which always existed, though clouds may have hidden it from sight?
Occasionally
we read of persons who have made but a superficial investigation of Christian Science, or perhaps have no knowledge of it except hearsay, who condemn or ridicule what they do not understand because it is different from their beliefs.
At the first Wednesday evening meeting held in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Galveston, Texas, following the disaster of September 8, the First Reader requested testimonies as to the particular thought which upheld the Scientists through the hours of suspense while in the seeming "valley of the shadow.
Louis Blanc, the eloquent Frenchman, lost his voice, not as Falstaff did, "with halloing and singing of anthems," but through dread of an English audience.
Clergy and laymen will be interested in knowing that through the diligent search of Representative Lacey of Iowa, what is known as the "Jefferson Bible" has been brought to light.
