Napoleon
is credited with the sage-sounding remark, "Man is immortal until his work is done," which may convey to the human sense some realization of the relative importance of a man and the purpose to which he is consecrated.
Very
helpful thoughts have been received through the study of the beautiful narrative of the healing of the centurion's servant as found in the eighth chapter of Matthew.
If
Mary Baker Eddy had done no more, through her discovery and recovery of Christian Science, than to lift humanity to a higher conception of the word "love," she would have accomplished what idealists everywhere have striven for, throughout all ages.
It
has been well said that in order to be a success in any thing one must fully believe in one's self; but the belief in one's self requires also a full knowledge of one's self, and here it is well to consider the counsel of Paul when he wrote the Corinthians saying, "And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Lord Bryce
diagnosing, in his recent speech before the Merchants' Association, in New York, the case of present discontents in Europe, ignored the usual category of superficial irritants, and, seeking a cause truly fundamental, declared, "The real disease from which Europe now suffers is hatred, the hatreds of peoples to one another.
Credit
and security are two of the commonest words that are used in the world of business; but many people do not comprehend in the least that their real meaning is metaphysical.
Who
would doubt the coming dawn,Though the night be without a star!Or the certainty of approaching Spring,While yet o'er earth afarLies Winter's mantle white?
On glancing over the morning paper my eyes fell upon these words: "Life is a great thing—a broad, deep, fine, noble thing—and the happiness one gets from it all depends upon the one who lives it.
I wish to express my thankfulness to God and gratitude to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the wonderful understanding of the truth gained through studying Christian Science, which has changed my whole life.
Some years ago, after suffering for years from the liquor habit, and all of the ills that go with it, I staggered into a lodging house and on a stand in the hall found a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the first one I had ever seen.
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