In
her book "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy has included a brief article entitled "Taking Offense," which could well be considered a very important study for all mankind.
How
often it has been said with longing: "Oh, if we could but start all over again! If only the world could be made anew so that everything would function properly!" Humanity's ardent wish for a fresh start, though it appears altogether vain to mortal sense, is nevertheless capable of realization.
Nowhere
in the recorded sayings of the Master, Christ Jesus, is there a more important or significant statement than one that is given in the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel.