In
contrast with much religious thought of the past, which, through false veneration, has come under the bondage of superstition, mortal sense is now swinging to the opposite extreme of irreverent questioning, and to-day there are those who in all soberness deny the possibility of phenomena of our Saviour's life in which the faith of Christianity has always been centered.
It
is most interesting to observe how rapidly the Christian world is coming to accept the teaching of Christian Science, that health is the normal and congruous state in which the spiritually aspiring may and should live; that its freedom and strength belong to the children of God, and are essential to the successful fulfilment of those Christian duties and obligations which the Master's words has imposed upon every believer.
We
have before us a letter asking whether the holding of the afternoon or evening services referred to in the "Explanatory Note" in The Christian Science Quarterly, is optional with the churches, also whether these services are to be considered simply in the nature of overflow meetings.
As shown in all human experience, there is an element of consciousness which, in time of stress, turns away from the things of sense to the spiritual and eternal; intermittently it may be, yet from necessity it refuses to be stilled until satisfied, if only for the hour.
Of
the several plans formulated by our Leader for the correct presentation of Christian Science to the public, one of the most efficient in operation is the giving of lectures by the members of an official board.
