When
Jesus declared, of the carnal-minded men of that day, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do," he showed his unerring sense of cause and effect.
Many
striking passages in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy show that there is a time to speak and a time to be silent; there is the silence of Jesus and there is the silence of Judas, the silence of spiritual perception and authority which knows the nothingness and powerlessness of sin, and the silence of fear, hypocrisy, and dishonesty which would cover sin for the sake of a convenient peace.
In
the demonstration of the harmony of true being, the advancing thought encounters what it pleases to call problems; and it is well to look upon false claims, whatever their seeming character may be, as nothing more than problems which are to be met and overcome.
Thou
who hast watched the flame of hope burn lowUpon the altar hid within thine heartTill ashes cold and gray as moorland mistThe altar and thine heart alike enfold,And thou did'st rise with senses dulled by painUnspeakable to stumble down the pathInto the valley veiled in mists of doubt;Hear thou the voice of Truth immutable:Pause thou within the shadow of the rockWhile Truth doth break to thee the bread of Life.
The
Elizabethan language is not the language of the twentieth century, and so it comes about that the Greek word which the translators of the Authorized Version rendered conversation, in the epistle to the Philippians, means really citizenship.
To infinite Mind all activity is one harmonious whole, infinite in expression, with no sense of unimportance, no phase neglected by its cause, and no mistakes to require subsequent correction.
Many years ago when I first learned of Christian Science, through some of the literature kindly lent to me by a Christian Scientist who was visiting in the neighborhood where I then resided, I was in the concluding stage of a long train of bowel and stomach troubles.
Edith E. Williams
with contributions from Arthur M. Williams
A few years ago Christian Science was brought to my husband's attention two or three times, so finally he purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and brought it home.
Surrounded, as it were, by a wall of material obstacles so completely as to be debarred from progressing in any direction, and while searching for an opening through which I might see the light and my ultimate escape from the limitation of such confinement, a friend, seeing my great need, asked if I had ever tried Christian Science.
As I have so much appreciated the helpful thoughts given in the various testimonies, it is only right that I should give mine if I can find words adequate to express a small part of my gratitude for the many, many blessings I have received through Christian Science.
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