Our
Master, when questioned as to which was the greatest or most important of the commandments, declared that "all the law and the prophets" were included in the commandment to love God supremely and one's neighbor as himself.
It
sometimes happens that persons who have tried in vain to be healed through medical treatment, perhaps at much expense and with much suffering because of the means employed, and who have as a last resort turned to Christian Science, cherish a strong sense of resentment not only toward the system which had failed to relieve them from their ills, but also toward those through whom it had been employed.
Nothing
is more clearly taught by Christ Jesus than that a knowledge of God embraces and sums up one's promise and possession of eternal life: that the true consciousness is a God-consciousness; and this fact gives the greatest possible weight to the question whether our acquaintance with Him whom the Master taught us to think of as "the Father" is steadily increasing.
The
different light in which coroners view the many deaths under medical treatment which come to their attention, and an occasional death under Christian Science treatment, is aptly shown in a statement to the New York Sun by the Christian Science committee on publication for that state, from which we quote as follows:—
Thoughtful
people are becoming deeply impressed with the conviction that the social order embraces many facts and conditions which are altogether wrong, and that the spirit of Christian brotherhood, alone, can right them.
To the student of Christian Science the Scriptures take on a new meaning and make strong demands for unhesitating obedience to statements of truth which were formerly passed over as having no vital relation to the working out of our present-day problems.