Among
the very interesting Biblical narratives, the true meanings of which have been unfolded to me by the light of our text-book, Science and Health, none have impressed my thought more forcibly than the story of Naaman in Second Kings.
In
the National Museum at Washington is a department devoted to the History of Medicine, which aims to present the chronological development of materia medica, and which affords a striking illustration of the erroneous derivation of the "science" which claims to heal suffering humanity by means of matter.
A "Gospel of the Kingdom" that tries to reform the community without first reforming the men who constitute the community must inevitably fail to accomplish the end sought.
What
find we, friend, in Camelot, the Camelot of to-day; what for him that hath the eyes to see, the ears to hear the spiritual meaning of this ancient tale of knightly deeds and thoughts?
The
Hebrew king who has since been called the "wise man," tested to its fullest extent the ability of the world and the flesh to give pleasure and satisfaction to mortals.
We need not so much a faith in a past resurrection, though our faith must be linked with history, and joined with an event which created Christianity out of the lacerated and marble contents of Joseph's tomb; nor so much a confidence that Jesus is to come by and by, necessary as is that to keep the hope serene: we need a faith in a Saviour who rises in us daily, is with us here and now, with words and spirit of life and treasures of immortality.
