Prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, as provided for by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and the Volstead Act applying the provisions of that Amendment, has attracted almost universal attention in the United States during recent weeks.
Christian Scientists
are awake to the necessity of constantly being on guard against the attempted encroachments of evil; they know the need of keeping their mental gates closed against the common enemy.
What
a gulf there is between the beliefs which mortals entertain of man and the truth about him! It is a gulf so wide as to be unbridgeable; for the beliefs of mortals concerning man are unreal, while the truth about him is real.
There
is perhaps no work which Christian Science is doing to-day of more vital interest to every one than the awakening of men to the importance of watching their thinking.