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Varying opinions have obtained among Christian scholars in all ages as to the character and value of the service philosophy has rendered the human mind in its effort to attain to absolute truth. Philosophy is the imperial highway along which the pagan intellect has marched with its most stately tread and along which are to be found the memorials of its greatest achievements.
Nassau, N. P.
Perhaps no term in the English language has been more misapplied than the word transcendental. The hour has come for its true meaning and value to be revealed, for its rescue from the false sense that it applies to what is visionary, unreal, and impracticable.
In these modern times of industrial prosperity, when the busy mart of life absorbs the attention of youth and age, many are overlooking the fact that true progress is indicated by spiritual advancement, and that God's laws must be acknowledged in the affairs of this world. It has been said, "The best established doctrine of historical philosophy is that the power, prosperity, and mental energy of a race or nation springs from and lives by its religion; that when its religion ceases to be its faith—that is, its energizing principle—the intellect, power, vigor, and prosperity of that race or nation dies away in proportion, and ultimately perishes, both mentally and physically.
Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable.
Perhaps no feature of the teaching of Christian Science arouses so much interest on the part of the beginner as that which relates to the unreality of matter. Many are only too glad to believe what Christian Science has to say about the loving purpose of our heavenly Father to send nothing but good to His children.
The sick and the sinful are asking, "What must I do to be saved?" Christian Science replies in the language of Scripture, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. " Believe and be saved.
A great deal is written and said nowadays about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. These two phrases, so often upon the lips of religionists and thinking people, when rightly understood, are full of beauty and power, but misinterpreted, they drift easily into vain repetition and meaningless cant.
AS a man looketh at the world, so is it. Is not this a correlative of the Scripture, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he"? And if it be true, is it not evidential to the fact that the world (meaning, of course, the physical world and its incidents) is non-real and phenomenal? And if such world be non-real, does it not follow that the atheist is deprived of the very pith of his argument against the existence of God as omniscient and omnipotent good? But, on the other hand, if the physical world and its incidents, as known to our sense-perception and sense-consciousness, be reality, either sole or dual, how can the atheistic argument be met successfully, except it be wholly by the authority of the Bible? Correct reasoning ought always to be able to avoid antagonizing the Bible; and when it does seem to antagonize it, the true course is to seek the error in the premises upon which the reasoning is based.
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. — Jesus.