When
a man faces a life—problem, with an ethical purpose, and having found a key thereto, works out the difficulty to its end, he brings into relief the true meaning of service for humanity.
A number
of newspapers have commented upon the quandary in which a certain church in New Jersey found itself placed by reason of the application of one of its members for a letter of dismissal and recommendation to the local Christian Science church, and most of them have taken the very sensible view that the dismissal of the member was something to which he was entitled by right, and the question whether or not he should be recommended to the Christian Science church or any other church was of minor importance.
In
identifying Truth with God, Christian Science gives the supreme statement and proof of the oneness of all truth,—that in the whole realm of the divine manifestation there are no contradictions, no discordant forces or laws.
Concerning
no other matter, perhaps, have Christian Scientists been more frequently and more grievously misjudged than with respect to their attitude toward the humanitarian spirit which has made such wondrous advance in the last half century.
Not
infrequently in times past heroic struggles for freedom have been attended by the sacrifice of thousands of lives and the loss of untold millions of property.
It
is not possible to overestimate the value of the spiritual unfoldings which come to us as we study the Scriptures in the light of Christian Science.