An
essential postulate of Christian Science is that it involves the healing of the sick as well as the reforming of the sinner,—that the teachings of Jesus contemplated deliverance from both sickness and sin; and it is because Christian Scientists believe that salvation from both sin and sickness are equally possible at this time through the teachings of our Master, that they are pronounced unwise and impracticable.
Few
human impulses are more alive to opportunity than that which leads us to dispense to others the counsel or rebuke which is peculiarly fitted to our own needs.
In
spite of the tendency towards the pursuit of material knowledge, evinced by most of the writers on the subject of evolution, the ethical element is ever seeking notice from those who really desire to find something which will prove that Mind underlies the processes of nature.
The
following published extract from a sermon by President Angell at the University of Michigan, so emphasizes the need for prayer, and places it upon so true and rational a basis as to command more than passing notice.
If
it were always possible for the children to have right standards given them, the results actually attained in after years would be so very different from ordinary experience as to contradict the popular expectation awakened; but it is sadly true that in youth, even in childhood, the acquirement of wealth and position is continually held before thought as the goal of endeavor.
A Distinct
impression conveyed by those who attended our recent Communion and Annual Meeting was that they were actuated by a deeply religious sentiment which was manifest on all occasions, yet the evident happiness of each individual comprising this great throng was so marked as to cause comment in the newspapers.