In
the Christian Science Sunday Schools all pupils are required to learn the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation as given on page 16 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
The
following item from a Boston Transcript of recent date is but another indication that the erroneous concept of Christian Science and of the attitude of its followers in the matter of charity, which has so long held sway in the minds of many people, is giving place to the truth.
The
teaching of Christ Jesus abounds with references to faith as necessarily antecedent to spiritual healing, and its inexcusable absence furnished the occasion of some of his severest rebukes to his disciples.
At
the present time, as never before in human history, the need of spirituality is being felt and expressed, which is the more remarkable because the age is admitted to be intensely materialistic; but this really gives the reason for the need of the spiritual.
Occasionally
we hear of Christian Scientists who believe that they have discovered some simpler and better method for the practice of Christian Science than has been perceived by other students of Science and Health; but conservative students of Mrs.
It
may be questioned if there is any other word in our language which awakens so much vague, indefinite, and altogether erroneous thought as the word "law.
Nothing
is more wonderful in life, nothing more prophetic of the fruition of the highest hopes of the race, than the cry of triumph which, in the midst of human tragedy, is often heard denying apparent defeat.