About
every so often some person makes a demand for the moment on the attention of the reading public with a newspaper attack on Christian Science, and tries to bolster up its flimsy tissue with the time-worn and over-worked fabrication that Mrs.
In reading the Gospel accounts of the experiences of him who has rightly been called the great Exemplar, we see more and more clearly, as we advance in spiritual understanding, the significance of Mrs.
In
a recent address before a gathering of physicians, one of America's foremost educators, while speaking of the requirements now laid upon the medical profession, is reported to have said: "Another combat to be urged is that of scientific progress toward new knowledge, not the supernatural but the natural way, and it is for the medical profession to give warning against the new superstitions.
It
is the hope, we might almost say the ambition, of every Christian Scientist, no matter what his business or official duties may be, at some time to devote his entire time and energies to the practice of the healing work which our Master commended to his followers, and those who are able to realize this hope are indeed fortunate.
If
the recognition and confession of one's own faults is a preliminary of progress, then Protestant ministers as a whole are at the dawn of better things, for the freedom with which they are criticizing their own equipment and efficiency is quite remarkable.
Other
things being equal, mankind's most effective helper is he who is best able to discern the signs and possibilities of good, and who does not allow any show of stupidity or false sense to disturb his hold upon the promise of better things in those to whom he would minister.
