A Clever
critic of western civilization, who writes under the caption, "Letters from a Chinese Official," hews close to the line when he says that instead of thinking of the quality of the life lived, we are ever thinking of the means of living.
When
Jesus was asked whether he was the Christ, "he that should come," he answered, "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Christian Scientists
have been criticised from many different standpoints and for many alleged sins of commission and omission, but one of the most novel indictments yet brought against our people is that of a Congregational clergyman in an article contributed to his denominational paper.
In
Paul's beautiful discourse on charity, or "love" as it is better rendered, he says, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child;.
We
are in receipt of a letter from one of our subscribers asking us to state what books may properly be called Christian Science literature, also to define the status of several books which she names.
