A Study
of the book of Acts and of the various epistles reveals the fact that considerable time and growth in grace were needed in order to reconcile the differing views of those who were at that day accepting Christianity.
To
the Christian Scientist all right thinking, all real progress, and all that makes for the good of humanity is the manifestation of infinite Mind, God.
No one can think of the unprofitableness of most of the things which consume humanity's attention, and at the same time have some sense of the seriousness of the problems which we are called upon to solve in this life, without feeling that waste of time and opportunity assumes, with the many, the semblance of a crime.
Within
the past few years propaganda in behalf of enforced medical inspection and medical control of the people has assumed such proportions and developed such arrogant disregard of personal rights, as to call forth protest from even those who believe in medical practice.
Despite
all the confusions of Christian belief, the timidities and manifest uncertainties of the many who are sincerely seeking to be guided of God, it still remains true that the divine address to human sense is so specific as to render the misapprehension of essential duties quite impossible.
The
spiritual signification of Scripture, rising above the material, is illustrated in the first chapter of the fourth gospel, where we find John's characterization of Jesus in these words : "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
It
is a stock criticism of Christian Science that too much attention is given by the adherents of this religion to the exploitation of the healing of the sick.
The
lack of unity of belief and of efficient cooperation among professed followers of Christ Jesus which has characterized Christian history in all the long years, is equally unfortunate, unbecoming, and unnecessary.
Sometimes,
as we try to take in the vast proportions which the Christian Science movement has assumed, we are almost overwhelmed at the magnitude of our indebtedness to its Discoverer and Founder, our revered and beloved Leader.
