The
hopelessness with which so many disease are invested by materia medica, the irresistible appeal of the idealism of Christ Jesus, and the unnumbered and unquestionable healings witnessed to in Christian Science,—all these are to-day impelling the suffering to seek for something better than pills and potions, and in response to their half-articulate longing, human sense has hastened to proffer so many mental panaceas that a great body of well-meaning people are utterly confused.
In
the third chapter of Acts we find a very beautiful promise in Peter's words, "the times of restitution of all things;" a promise which is linked to a kindred idea, viz.
Within
the past few days the world has been shocked by the calamity which has befallen the people of southern Italy, and the hearts and purses of the civilized world have opened in generous and loving response to the needs of the survivors of this greatest tragedy of its kind in modern history.
The
traditional time for turning over a new leaf has come again, and they are few, surely, who do not think it entirely in keeping for them to make the turn.
In
the epistle to the Hebrews the writer says, "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers," and he adds, "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
A Few
years ago the state of Missouri, upon the solicitation of a committee of medical doctors, enacted a law which was popularly supposed to be aimed at the practice of Christian Science.
Toward
the close of Jesus' personal ministry he told his students that they need have no regrets because of his departure from their plane of experience, because the Father would send to them "another Comforter," who was to abide with them forever.
Life
brings many experiences that beget distrust and discouragement, and the peace and happiness of the average individual depend largely upon how well he has learned, in his thinking, to bring every event into right relations with some abiding fundamental of revealed truth, some aspect of the infinite good which is clearly defined and immovable in the embrace of his faith and understanding.
The
35th chapter of Isaiah is of peculiar interest to Christian Scientists, because it outlines so beautifully the results which must of necessity follow when divine Truth is clearly revealed and understood.
