It
happens that some who are becoming interested in Christian Science, as well as those who are opposed to it, with strange inconsistency ask why Christian Science practitioners accept fees for their services in healing the sick.
One
of the most pleasing signs of the times is the way in which many newspaper workers have taken occasion to express themselves in relation to The Christian Science Monitor, since the announcement of its early issue was made in these columns but little more than a month ago.
Christian Scientists
are asked a great many questions by people who, without knowing it, are trying to reconcile material belief with spiritual reality.
Nothing
could be more dramatic, more appealing to the imagination, than the circumstances of that early morning hour when the land-birds first fluttered about his little caravels, and peering through the enveloping haze the brave Genoese caught his first glimpse of a new world.
If
we may judge by some of the inquiries received at this office, a number of our friends do not fully understand the scope of the daily newspaper soon to be issued by The Christian Science Publishing Society.
The
Bible offers no instance of loving and prophetic appeal which is more argumentative and more telling than that recorded in the 18th chapter of Ezekiel, and summarized in the words: "Cast away from you all your transgressions,.
The
possibilities of good attaching to the present number and variety of means for the dissemination of thought can be exceeded only by their possibilities of ill.
