The
subtlest temptations often seem reserved for those who entertain the noblest ideals and who strive the most faithfully and disinterestedly for their attainment.
We
have been favored with a newspaper clipping which tells of a movement in England to form an association "within the Established Church to revive the teaching and practice of the early centuries concerning Divine healing.
The all-important consideration for humanity is how to reach the moral and intellectual stature which ever marks the Christ-man, and thus to realize the fulfilment of the Divine purpose.
It
is possible to conceive of a type of man that would be prompted by pride to exaggerate his own faults, but it would be difficult to think that a person of this character could be found occupying a position of religious prominence.
Some of those opponents of Christian Science who have criticised the healing accomplished by this system have done so upon the supposition that the persons who have been healed were victims of their own imagination, and that the serious nature of the ailments from which they suffered was not substantiated by the diagnoses of physicians.
Everything that goes to make up the sum-total of human experience must be subjected to the severest tests, and its worth or worthlessness decided by the results.
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.