Part 75 (1/2)

We crave the privilege of saying to the sick, when their

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feebleness calls for help, ”Rise and walk.” We rejoice [1]

to say, in the spirit of our Master, ”Stretch forth thy hand, and be whole!”

When the Pharisees saw Jesus do such deeds of mercy, they went away and took counsel how they might remove [5]

him. The antagonistic spirit of evil is still abroad; but the greater spirit of Christ is also abroad,-risen from the grave-clothes of tradition and the cave of ignorance.

Let the sentinels of Zion's watch-towers shout once again, ”Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is [10]

given.”

In different ages the divine idea a.s.sumes different forms, according to humanity's needs. In this age it a.s.sumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish. [15]

This is the babe that twines its loving arms about the neck of omnipotence, and calls forth infinite care from His loving heart.

Blind Leaders

What figure is less favorable than a wolf in sheep's [20]

clothing? The braying donkey whose ears stick out is less troublesome. What manner of man is it that has discovered an improvement on Christian Science, a ”met- aphysical healing” by which error destroys error, and would gather all sorts into a ”national convention” by [25]

the sophistry that such is the true fold for Christian heal- ers, since the good shepherd cares for all?

Yes; the _good_ Shepherd does care for all, and His first care is to separate the sheep from the goats; and

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this is among the first lessons on healing taught by our [1]

great Master.

If, as the gentleman aforesaid states, large flocks of metaphysicians are wandering about without a leader, what has opened his eyes to see the need of taking them [5]

out of the care of the great Shepherd, and behold the remedy, to help them by his own leaders.h.i.+p? Is it that he can guide Christian Scientists better than they, through the guidance of our common Father, can guide them- selves? or is it that they are incapable of helping them- [10]

selves thus?

I as their teacher can say, They know far more of Christian Science than he who deprecates their condition appears to, and my heart pleads for them to possess more and more of Truth and Love; but mixing all grades [15]

of persons is not productive of the better sort, although he who has self-interest in this mixing is apt to pro- pose it.

Whoever desires to say, ”good right, and good wrong,”

has no truth to defend. It is a wise saying that ”men [20]

are known by their enemies.” To sympathize in any degree with error, is not to rectify it; but error always strives to unite, in a definition of purpose, with Truth, to give it buoyancy. What is under the mask, but error in borrowed plumes? [25]

”Christ And Christmas”

An Ill.u.s.trated Poem

This poem and its ill.u.s.trations are as hopelessly origi- nal as is ”Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-

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tures.” When the latter was first issued, critics declared [1]

that it was incorrect, contradictory, unscientific, unchris- tian; but those human opinions had not one feather's weight in the scales of G.o.d. The fact remains, that the textbook of Christian Science is transforming the [5]