In
conversing with people of different nationalities we are often met with the statement that the native tongue of the one with whom we are talking is the best on earth, that it is the most poetical, or that it expresses ideas with greater accuracy than does any other.
The
question which is always on the lips of those who have for the first time seen and felt the works of Christian Science, is in a sense similar to that which John's messengers conveyed to Christ Jesus in regard to the validity of his claim to the Messiahship.
One
of the leading postulates of Christian Science being that good alone is real, it necessarily follows that this religion teaches the unreality and nothingness of evil.
There
is perhaps no statement in Science and Health of greater importance to its students than the definition of salvation given on page 593, which reads as follows: "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed.
It
is a strange commentary upon the preaching of the gospel to which men have listened for centuries, that today the world seems far from the fraternity which should be the fruit of all this endeavor and the logical outcome of the Christianity epitomized by Christ Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount.
It
is admitted by all earnest students of Christian Science that in order to progress they must cast out of their consciousness whatever is unlike God.
While
the generous contributions of Christian Scientists in this country for the relief of their brethren—and non-Scientists as well—in Europe have enabled the committees appointed to distribute the fund to alleviate the prevailing distress, the need for assistance is still apparent.
