Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Wages
THE general meaning of the word wages is that medium of exchange, called money, which is paid for personal service. Figuratively the word is synonymous with produce, which is specifically associated with agricultural products. In comparing things with thoughts we find that the mental world in which we live has the produce or wage of every right or wrong thought, and its realization, or payment, accompanies very closely the outward act. A Bible verse which made a deep impression upon the writer as a child was Paul's statement in Romans: "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
In Science and Health (p. 311) Mrs. Eddy tells us that "all sin is of the flesh. It cannot be spiritual. Sin exists here or hereafter only so long as the illusion of mind in matter remains." Hence while we live on the plane which makes a reality of physical sense the wages we receive will be disease and death, whereas the wage of service to Truth is the gain of intelligence, with dominion over the flesh, that true vision or spiritual perception. which yields a higher sense of infinite Mind, the cause of all that is harmonious and eternal. Our Master once said to his disciples, "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together." There is no uncertainty about this kind of wage.

April 15, 1916 issue
View Issue-
Divine Will
WILLIAM D. MC CRACKAN, M.A.
-
Angels
HENRIETTA MARCUS
-
Abiding
MARIANNE IHDE WENDT
-
Neutrality
THOMAS C. PERINE
-
Sunday School for Children
MANA WILLIS FISHER
-
Wages
JANE C. ELSTON
-
Truth-healing
LILY M. SMITH
-
Love Casting Out Fear
MARY GERTRUDE BERGHELL
-
In an account of a sermon appears the following statement:...
Henry Van Arsdale
-
The teachings of Christian Science are open and accessible...
Carl E. Herring
-
In reporting a critic's attitude toward Christian Science...
John L. Rendall
-
There is nothing whatever in the nature of pretense in...
Charles W. J. Tennant
-
An evangelist undertakes, after a mere reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Robert S. Ross
-
Christian Science is founded on the Bible, especially the...
Thomas F. Watson
-
A Wall of Defense
Archibald McLellan
-
Rebuilding the Temple
John B. Willis
-
Endurance
Annie M. Knott
-
Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
John V. Dittemore
-
The Lectures
with contributions from S. W. Condon, C. F. Armstrong, Joseph R. Curl
-
In loving gratitude to God, also to our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy,...
Winifred W. Gatling
-
I did not take up the study of Christian Science for...
Everett Carmany Howard
-
When I first heard of Christian Science it was after years...
Ada Harden with contributions from Arthur Reed Adams
-
When I had been out of school about a year I became very...
Florence Stratton Weaver with contributions from George E. Nightingale
-
For many years I was a great sufferer from stomach...
Frederick Lovis
-
I was brought up in the Jewish faith, and during my early...
Henry Morris with contributions from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-
From Our Exchanges
with contributions from Gordon L. Thompson, Donald B. Fraser