There
are perhaps not many who take the trouble to discriminate between faith and mere credulity, which is defined as "a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
Efforts
of the doctors to bring about compulsory medical examination of school children and others are not on the wane, and it is quite evident from newspaper reports that where they have succeeded in having this work done, little if any regard has been paid to the wishes and protests of parents, or even to the simple dictates of modesty.
Many
good people are apt to think of trust in God, which is urged upon us in the Scriptures, as a somewhat negative mental quality, a condition of thought which relieves one of all responsibility either at the present time or in the future.
Good
endureth from generation to generation, and its modus alone can have permanence, prove an unbroken chain, and establish that legitimate law of heredity under which like produces like.
It
is gratifying to note, as a sign of the times, that many people are recognizing not only the futility but also the harmfulness and bad taste of indulging one of the stock subjects of general conversation, namely, descriptions of the ills "that flesh is heir to.
Few
people would be willing to deny the power of law, however understood, but there would doubtless be great diversity of opinion as to how this power could be proved.
The
great Teacher had much to say about sowing and reaping, and it is well for us to cling to the fact that the good seed and its fruitage were given first place in his discourses and their permanence was shown.
No
one can familiarize himself with the book of Isaiah without being impressed that he has come into touch with a man of remarkable vision, one whose spiritual intuition was no less authoritative than rare.
There
is a tendency at times, with some Christian Scientists, in their honest desire to make known what great things Truth has done for them, to hark back too persistently to the past, to recall and rehearse with painstaking detail the sufferings endured or the trails undergone, until quite unawares both narrator and listener have etched upon their consciousness as a vivid reality thoughts which are as an open door inviting the return of the illusion of sickness or sin.
