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Can anyone, who has come into the understanding of Christian Science, doubt the practical side of spirituality, or, indeed, see anything but its practical part? When we become accustomed to the glorious thought that God is All-in-all, and that we are upheld by the everlasting arms, what a dawn for us! The Light has come. It has shown us that what we have made much of, and called Life, is but a dream; and this light transfigures all our surroundings.

In the columns of The Chicago Interior appears a criticism of a very indefinite nature, but bearing this title, and treating the greatest subject of the age: the greatest, because, when understood, it will be of the most value to man; of the most value, because, when he sees and knows what Christian Science means, it will bring man back to his own home and country, to which he has so long been a stranger. One who understands this same Science, which the Master taught his apostles, and comprehends the truths of the Scripture in a demonstrable, spiritual sense, can easily discern that the Interior critic has unintentionally comdemned the way of Life, Truth, and Love, the Trinity in Unity, which Mrs.

In Genesis we read: "And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. " Our Teacher says: "The eternal Elohim makes man.

As one looks upon the complex condition surrounding us, and dwells thoughtfully upon the verdict of the senses, the impression is,—there must exist a power, in comparison to which man (mortal mind) sinks into utter insignificance; and yet, to the senses, man has made great and wonderful inventions. Man supposes the primitive cause of all knowledge to be based on material law, and he saps this supposed law for his benefit, receiving for a time, perhaps, a gratification of the desires of sense.

Science has been defined as a collection of facts, relating to any subject, arranged in systematic order. Now, if we have invariable laws of right, and if these laws are found in Christianity, then Christianity, properly understood and stated, is Scientific; and there you have Christian Science.

The assertion that I have said hard things about my loyal students in Chicago, New York, or any other place, is utterly false and groundless. I speak of them as I feel, and I can not find it in my heart not to love them.

The world is flooded with false teachers and their literature; but dear Science and Health is a whole library in itself,—pure and beautiful. Its pages stand above the waves of error.

Letters from loyal Christian Scientists, in the West, bring complaints of Brother Joseph Adams, the substance of which is that his course tends to disorganize our churches and schools, and to interfere with the rights of individuals. The Christian Scientist Association, of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, Boston, of which he is a member, enjoined by myself to exercise towards this brother the charity that "seeketh not her own," but another's good, hitherto has taken no decided action on these complaints; but a recent letter from Mr.

What a Babel of tongues, what a confusion of sound is heard, if one stops a moment to listen! Who, without the keynote, can distinguish the true tone from the false? What wonder that the beginner soon loses his pitch, drops to the bottom of the scale, and is finally lost sight of? There is but one way to steer clear of the many pitfalls, and that is to clasp tightly the little truth we have, and close our ears to the babbling of the crowd. Many are so anxious to ventilate their ideas, that they do not wait to know the Truth, but send out their erroneous thoughts, labelled Christian Science.

The higher we rise in the understanding of Truth, the greater our demonstration, and the more subtle the error we have to meet. I learn from my own experience, and by observing that of others, that this correspondence is kept up, and there is nothing for us to do but work constantly on the side of Truth, and be instant in season and out of season, never stopping in our upward march.