The
imperative command of the great Teacher, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," was given by one who had tested the possibilities of humanity, and who in consequence "knew what was in man," as we read in John's Gospel.
How best to dispose of accumulating copies of the Sentinel and Journal, is a question that sometimes perplexes Christian Scientists who would like to pass along their "good things" to' others, but are in doubt as to the most effective method of accomplishing their purpose.
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.