I am patient with the newspaper wares and the present schoolboy epithets and attacks of a portion of Christendom:
(1) Because I sympathize with their ignorance of Christian Science:
(2) Because I know that no Christian can or does understand this Science and not love it:
(3) Because these attacks afford opportunity for explaining Christian Science:
(4) Because it is written: “The wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain.”
Rest assured that the injustice done by press and pulpit to this denomination of Christians will cease, when it no longer blesses this denomination. “This I know; for God is for me” (Psalms). And in the words of St. Paul, “If God be for us, who can be against us?”
| “Pass ye the proud fane by, |
| The vaulted aisles by flaunting folly trod. |
| And 'neath the temple of uplifted sky — |
| Go forth, and worship God.” |
Message, April 19, 1899
Subject: “Not Matter, but Spirit”
My Beloved Brethren: — We learn from the Scriptures that the Baalites or sun-worshippers failed to look “through nature up to nature's God,” thus missing the discovery of all cause and effect. They were content to look no higher than the symbol. This departure from Spirit, this worshipping of matter in the name of nature, was idolatry then and is idolatry now. When human thought discerned its idolatrous tendencies, it took a step
