In
the opening pages of the chapter on Science, Theology, Medicine, in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.
A great
deal is said about the need for unity among Christian people, but it is not always remembered that the demand for separateness is of equal importance.
Human
sense makes such frequent exhibitions of its consent if not attachment to the unideal, impulses which are unquestionably opposed to Spirit are so frequently in evidence, that aspiring hearts sometimes experience a sense of great discouragement.
These
days when old earth seems to be speeding in its race toward our northland summer, and when we are enticed on every hand to forget all that hinders our companionship with the sweet out-of-door awakenings, one is led to think again, and with an ever increasing wonder of interest, of the relation of light to life, and of the tremendous fact that this relation is true for all the ranges of history, observation, and experience.
All
through the Scriptures we find statements as to repentance, from those which appear in the early records up to the angelic messages given in the book of Revelation.
Christian Scientists
who travel to any extent are often surprised to hear expressed in conversations to which they must listen, the most erroneous concepts of Christian Science, and they wonder how and where such misinformation could have originated.
In
the fifth chapter of John's gospel we find a lengthy discourse by Christ Jesus on the subject of life as spiritually understood, and this teaching follows the account of the remarkable healing of a man who had for thirty-eight years been a helpless sufferer.
Several
weeks ago we called attention to a letter from a physician in which, although these are not the exact words in which he expressed his thought, he boasted somewhat of the fact that a certain other physician had been elected to the Legislature of his state solely because he was a physicians and would use his position as a legislator to further the interests of his colleagues in their efforts to prevent the people from employing any method of healing other than that which they dealt in.
Every
student of historic Christianity must come to see the very great difference between the individualism of Christ Jesus and the individualism of the Protestant movement inaugurated by Huss and Savonarola and put into organic form by Luther and his associates.
Recent
events recall vividly the Scriptural account of Elijah's struggle with the entrenched beliefs of an idolatrous people, and his further struggle with the so-called destructive forces of nature, when he sought refuge from the wrath of Jezebel in a cave on mount Horeb.