If
a dozen persons were asked to define their individual concepts of prayer, it is likely that their statements would vary, because of their differing mentalities and preconceptions.
After
people become interested in Christian Science, they begin to study the Scriptures with greater care, but in most cases the bias of early religious teaching clings to the inquirer, until he advances sufficiently to apply truth to the varied problems of human experience.
Among
the unnumbered brief, thought-awakening sentences penned by the author of Science and Health, none is more pertinently related to present human conditions than her declaration in the Preface that "the time for thinkers has come".
"Glory
be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts! Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of human hope and faith, and through the revelation and demonstration of life in God, hath elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.
The
whilom city farmer was made glad, and withal very thoughtful, as he looked out through the trees to the glowing sunset and listened for the approaching stillness of the night.
In
the book of Job the heights and depths of human experience are many times touched with a pathos which shows that the vital questions of life have been the same in every age.
Among
the criticisms of Christian Science which appear from time to time, is the claim that followers of this faith are narrow and bigoted, because they do not embody in their doctrine the views of others who have thought and written upon lines which the critics believe to be similar to Christian Science.
