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.
We
have been advised of the circulation of a rumor that the total amount necessary for the completion of the new edifice of the Mother Church in Boston is "promised or pledged," and that the Field is therefore released from the necessity of sending further contributions to the Treasurer.
Editor
with contributions from Mary Hatch Harrison, Mary B. G. Eddy
We
are pleased to have permission to publish the following correspondence, which tells of an interesting episode of the recent dedicatory services in Concord.
We
have recently received several papers which are clearly within the class of unauthorized literature referred to in the Sentinel of August 15 and September 19, 1903, and as these papers seem to be in constant circulation, we feel justified in republishing the editorial of the latter date.