In
the early days of the Christian Science movement, the truths so fearlessly set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," naturally enough, because so distinct from the accepted orthodox teaching and practise of centuries past, aroused a storm of criticism from the clerical and the medical professions, with the press as a common vehicle; criticisms which, as Mrs.
Three and a half years ago the Board of Directors of The Mother Church requested Bicknell Young, as a member of the board of lectureship, to make his headquarters in Europe.
That
effective response to all the demands upon us, as parents, practitioners, and public citizens, constitutes a heavy load, is a proposition to which some of us may often be tempted to concede; and that the dominion of this sense does not represent the freedom which Christ Jesus declared was to be gained through a knowledge of Truth, goes without saying.
The
ninth commandment, which reads, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," makes a strong demand for truth between a man and his neighbor.
Under
the plausible guise of a desire for the public good, and upon the plea that the public is either incapable or not to be trusted in its judgment of what is best for its own interests, the medical societies of the different states are becoming more aggressive and more persistent than ever before in their efforts to secure the enactment of legislation for the purpose of preventing the practise of any system of healing disease which is not within their scope and control.
It
is not always borne in mind that perfection is a demand of Principle which applies to all we think, say, and do, from the least thing to the greatest, and that lapses from obedience to this demand are sure to cost us dear.