When
I first undertook the study of Christian Science the most attractive feature of its teachings, as it seemed to me, was that it crowned "the power of Mind as the Messiah".
Last
spring, when the call went out for more funds to build the Christian Science publishing house, I searched in my inmost heart for reasons why I, personally, should help to build this "watch-tower of the world".
Where it is not a matter of principle, there is often needless controversy, simply because some people never learn that there is such a thing as bending without breaking, and that a man may give in for the time without giving up for always.
It
is not conceivable that a God who is at once goodness and Love, should not have provided happiness for His creation, since every idea must be a reflection of the creator's own pure joy.
The
record of Uzzah's sin, as given in II Samuel, has been a salutary lesson to the writer, who in the first years of membership in the Christian Science church erred, as did Uzzah, in thinking that her responsibility was to steady the ark of God.