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.
One
of the most important religious movements of all time was inaugurated when in 1894 our revered Leader ordained the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as pastor of The Mother Church, and the intervening years have witnessed a study of the Bible by Christian Scientists such as was never before known.
Christian Science
is doing wonders in overcoming the belief that a man's capacities are developed at an early period in his experience, and that then they not only cease to unfold, but instead are likely to diminish.
For
many years Christian Science and its representatives have been very much talked about by other Christian believers, and not a little that has been said of both has been so gratuitously distorted that it would have been far better for the reputation of Christian people as a whole if the exhibition had not been opened to the public.