Fortunately
for mankind, religious intolerance, which has been the cause of more bitter quarrels, more shedding of blood, more suffering than all else in the history of the world, is on the wane, and the rights of each person to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience is more clearly recognized.
Our
appreciation of the common kindnesses of neighbors and friends impels us to make due and loving acknowledgment and a return of kindred favors when opportunity offers, but gratitude for higher and nobler gifts.
Our
faithful laborers in the field of Science have been told, through the alert editor-in-chief of the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal, that "Mrs.
The
greatest wisdom is shown in foreseeing and forestalling evil, and thus avoiding threatened dangers; but the consciousness that does this is entirely distinct from the mental condition which is forever fearful for the future, forever crossing bridges that have not been built.
"AND
they were all amazed, and spake among themselves saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
THE
good and true alone have liberty and law of propagation, but if they may be anticipated, and the riches of their fruitage be effectively planned for and assured, no less certainly and wisely may evil be foreseen and its manifestations forestalled.
IT
is an axiom that every individual must work out his own salvation, and this axiom is applicable to Christian Science churches as well as to individuals.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
present themselves to the world as a people consistently following the teachings of Jesus, the accepted Master and Exemplar of Christianity, rendering to God the things that are God's and to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.