Christian Scientists
are sometimes asked by those who are becoming interested in Christian Science, as to how certain things should be "demonstrated," as, for instance, a home.
Some
of those who criticize Christian Science and Christian Scientists do so from the standpoint that too much is made of the healing of disease, and too little of the healing of sin; but there are at least two reasons why such criticism is not well founded.
Religion
and physical science have generally been agreed that the material world and all it contains will be destroyed at some period unknown to either science or religion, but people have usually trusted that this great change might not come in their day.
David's
prayer, "Cleanse thou me from secret faults," seems peculiarly fitting when we remember how grievously he had sinned "against light," against the truth taught by Moses when he said, "Thou hast set our iniquities.
Christian Science,
through its insistence upon the reality and allness of good, of necessity throws into corresponding relief the reverse of this proposition, namely, the unreality and nothingness of evil.
No one can meditate upon human disposition and history, even for a brief time, without realizing how all-inclusive is and ever has been the habit of hasty and erroneous criticism, and no one can ever measure or define the enormity of the injustice which has resulted therefrom, the wrongs that have been inflicted, and the consequent handicap which has been placed upon individual and racial advance.
Many
persons look upon Christian Science as being nothing more than a cure-all for disease, a sort of family doctor, and while they admit the clean and wholesome lives of those who are truly following Mrs.
Will
our readers kindly bear in mind that the work at headquarters is necessarily divided into departments, also that by referring to the advertising pages of the Journal and Sentinel they will be able to ascertain the person or persons to whom their correspondence should be addressed in order to avoid delay.
At
the head of the list of anniversary congratulations to well-known people which Life prints every week, there stands in the issue of July 14, 1910, the following tribute.
