The
injunction in Hebrews, that we "lay hold upon the hope set before us," implies the necessity for mentally grasping, appropriating, and applying those blessings which the one Spirit is constantly revealing to the pure in heart and to the needy.
The
writer's boyhood days were passed on an island, and one of his amusements was to go to the seashore to watch the little fishes as they darted to and fro in the pools that were left by the outgoing tide.
Not
long ago, in trying to become conscious of the oneness and allness of God and the nothingness of the claim of error for a friend, my eyes rested on this sentence in Science and Health.
One
of the benefits which come to us through the understanding of Christian Science is the removal of the veil which in former times seemed to be over the Scriptures.
Christian Science accepts statements and makes declarations concerning God which are accepted and made by every other Christian religion, among which are the following: that God is the only creator; that God is Spirit; that God made man in His image and likeness; that God pronounced all that He made good; that God is all-power—omnipotence; that God is everywhere—omnipresence; that God is all-knowledge—omniscience.
Christian Science teaches us to strive to lift our vision above the evidence of the material senses out into the wide infinity of absolute truth, out from narrow, relative view where evil seems so real, and so much would seem to contradict the omnipresence of love and good, into the understanding of God as All-in-all, and the consequent recognition of the unreality of anything unlike Him.
Christian Scientists prove their views about Christ and about the supposed powers of evil to be correct, as did the early Christians, by positive "proof," by "signs following," such as Jesus affirmed should in all ages be the reasonable evidences of loyal, genuine discipleship.
That Christian Science should appear an absurdity to people who do not understand its teachings need cause no surprise; the discoveries of natural science met at first with equal derision.
One
cannot progress very far in the investigation and study of Christian Science without perceiving how closely it adheres in its teaching and demonstration to the truth the Master sought to convey to the self-seeking Pharisees, when they demanded of him the time the "kingdom of God" of which he had spoken should come.
We
had passed the doldrums with their characteristic rain and fog and fluffy winds, and had entered the southeast trades, a region of sunny seas and steady sails, well named "The Sailor's Delight.
A careful
study of the Bible reveals a widely different concept of poverty and riches than that popularly entertained, a truly metaphysical sense of these terms and others related to them, indicating mental rather than material conditions.
with contributions from F. B. Schwentker, W. S. Fitzpatrick, John C. Harmony, Henry Benner
The service room in the new Christian Science buildings, Uplands, was filled to overflowing on March 6, on the occasion of a lecture by Bicknell Young.
For a long time my wife and I had given up the orthodox religion as unsatisfactory both to heart and reason, and although we very seldom spoke of religion, we were hungering after the truth both for ourselves and our children.
It is now over two years since I became interested in Christian Science, and I wish to express my gratitude for the many demonstrations made for both myself and little son by a faithful worker.
Many years before I would even test the benefits of Christian Science, I was turned from it by misrepresentation of its teachings, made not by malice but by a misunderstanding of the truth; but God was watching over me and preparing the soil of my thought, that the seed might again be sown and bring forth fruit for the harvest.
Ada Hiscox
with contributions from Margaret Robinson
With sincere thankfulness to God for all the blessings bestowed upon me, and for guiding me to Christian Science, this new yet very old view of life eternal, I send my testimony to the Field.
It
is not just because our eyes are meetingIn daily converse, that we claim a friend;It is not e'en because our hearts are beatingSo near each other that our pulses blend.
The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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