WE
have been requested to reprint an editorial which appeared in The Christian Science Journal for November, 1906, and as the conditions which prompted this editorial have not been overcome, we are glad to respond to this request.
In
the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy we read: "And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Every
truly noble nature has met with unnumbered experiances which have excited outspoken revolt against the untoward companionship in human life and thought of good and evil, truth and error.
Through
all the centuries mankind has been cheated and defrauded by its belief that evil is something real and powerful, but in the last half century, fortunately, through the discovery of Christian Science and its teachings by Mrs.
Our
great Master humbly said, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls;" and it is only in this humble and unassuming spirit of the Master, that "self-abnegation by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error".
Of
all human possessions, none surely is so essential to our peace and progress as to have and maintain a thought of God that enables us to escape the assaults of doubt which untoward earthly experience is forever precipitating, and which eventuate in the moral wreck of so many careers.