There
are few who realize how much more rapidly mankind would advance if professing Christian always endeavored to be above, never below, the world's moral standards.
The
following editorial comment made by the New York Sun upon the statement issued by two physicians who have voluntarily retired from the practice of medicine, is interesting.
A number
of years ago, soon after our dear Leader had established her home at Pleasant View, some of her students and their students obtained the privilege of having a pond made on her grounds, wishing thereby to give her a little pleasure and to tell her by this token of their love and gratitude for Christian Science.
It
is a truism that those who are not willing to be taught of God must learn their lessons in the school of trying experience, and that these include the great majority of mankind there will be none to question.
Among
the many definitions of law, as given in the dictionaries, we find the following: "That which is fixed or set;" "A rule of action prescribed by authority;" "A proposition which expresses the constant or regular order of certain phenomena.
It
is probable that no feature of the Christian Science service seems so strange and conspicuous to the uninitiated as the absence of a personal preacher.
The
gradations of our love for men, our sense of fellow-feeling, range all the way from an indifferent tolerance to an enthusiastic recognition of a common nature, common welfare, and common goal.
