Christian Scientists
whose names appear in the Directory of Practitioners in The Christian Science Journal, also Readers in the branch churches, frequently receive circulars offering them an opportunity to make a fortune by investing any sum between five dollars and five thousand in some undeveloped but promising enterprise, which they are assured will pay phenomenal dividends at sometime in a more or less remote future.
The
marvelous changes which are taking place in religious thought to-day are scarcely more astonishing than is the apparent incapacity or indisposition of some to recognize their true explanation.
The
following rather pointed arraignment of "the great majority of nominal Christians" copied from a recent issue of The Universalist Leader, should have the effect of stimulating every Christian, "nominal" or otherwise, to a searching self-examination which will disclose his true status as a follower of Christ Jesus.
Our
people are again warned against a man who for several years has made a business of imposing upon Christian Scientists, and who has obtained more or less money from them by falsely representing himself to be a Christian Scientist temporarily in need of funds until he can reach a relative in a distant city and obtain employment.
What
a blessing it would be for mankind if all could see that the reversal of sense evidence and of human opinion is the way to that understanding of Truth which makes free.
The
significance of the relation of our concept of Deity to our spiritual life was forcibly expressed by Emerson in his famous "divinity address" when he said, "The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infests and dwarfs the constitution.
Jesus'
success in healing the sick and his exhortation to his followers to do the works that he did, point to the true test of Christianity, and it is only as Christian Scientists are able to measure up to his standard that they know that they are his present-day followers.
A Very
learned theologian, whose fame is abroad in all the world, has recently declared with emphasis that an imperative need of the present religious situation is a more highly educated ministry, a distinct advance in its scholastic equipment.