It
sometimes happens that the beginner in Christian Science is puzzled by the apparent inconsistency of the statement that God knows all our needs and supplies them; and the declaration that God, being Spirit, cannot know materiality.
No
Bible story is given a more dramatic setting than that of the fateful truth-test upon the summit of Mount Carmel, as told by the author of the book of Kings.
One
of the greatest offenses that a man can commit against his own best interest and the interest of his fellows is that of limiting in thought the range of freedom which Truth can bring.
All
through the Bible—both in the Old and the New Testament—we find frequent references to God's covenant with man, and this subject is tersely summed up in Malachi, where God says, "My covenant was with him of life and peace.
A peculiar
grievance held against Christian Science by some of its critics is that it "draws from the membership of other churches," a fair inference from such criticism being that both the person who with the courage of his convictions changes his religion, and the church which receives him, have thereby done something wrong.
No one will question that there is abundant evidence of the numerical growth of the Christian Science denomination, as attested by the steady increase in the number of branch churches organized, and also in the larger congregations which assemble in these churches at the Sunday and Wednesday services.
Recent
references to the great American Commoner have directed attention to the interesting fact that his attendance at school did not sum up more than ten months, all told.