Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Obedience
When one considers the discordant conditions which have confronted man from the dawn of human history, and which seem to be so much in evidence at the present time, one may well be led to accept the explanation given by Christian Science, that these conditions are fundamentally the result of disobedience to God. If God is good, as one has every authority and right to believe, and as one must believe if hope is to be harbored at all, His laws must be good, and so long as one lives in obedience to those laws, his experience will be good. When one departs from the divine law, either through ignorance or sin, he finds himself enmeshed in the troubles from which he would gladly escape, and out of which, fortunately, there always leads a highway of escape if he will travel it,—the highway of obedience to Spirit, God.
The self-righteousness which would excuse men for their misfortunes and lay the blame wholly upon the creator, thereby avoiding the necessity for any effort on their part to overcome evil, is simply an evasion of their responsibility. Such may exclaim with the Eastern poet:—
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
February 11, 1922 issue
View Issue-
Light
FRANCES MACK MANN
-
The Christian Science Lectures
WILLIAM W. PORTER
-
Obedience
WILLARD M. GRIMES
-
An Appreciation
George Wendell Adams
-
With reference to a letter in an issue of your paper,...
Clifford P. Smith
-
Christian Science is like all science
John W. Harwood
-
A contributor to your paper seems to think that a member...
Aaron E. Brandt
-
The teaching of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder...
William E. Brown
-
In an issue of your paper you publish a report of two...
Samuel J. Macdonald
-
A writer in your "Free Lance" columns, under the heading...
Theodore Burkhart
-
Your issue of recent date carried a dispatch with a New York...
Robert G. Steel
-
A Word to the Field
The Christian Science Board of Directors
-
A Full Salvation
Albert F. Gilmore
-
Our Manual—A Retrospect
Ella W. Hoag
-
The Power of God
Duncan Sinclair
-
Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
with contributions from Charles E. Jarvis
-
The Lectures
with contributions from Joseph R. Curl, Bertha M. Fitch, Nelvia Ritchie
-
In October, 1919, while at my work in the Pennsylvania...
Russell M. Sebring
-
With deep gratitude I desire to give testimony of the rich...
Emma Schumacher
-
It is with a grateful heart that I can testify to the healing...
Lilly E. Friedrich
-
On the evening of February 26, 1919, while I was standing...
Alice Fors Turpan
-
It is with deepest gratitude that I add my testimony to...
Mary L. Richmond
-
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was...
Louis J. Simmons
-
I wish to express my gratitude for all the benefits I have...
Evelyn Trevor Anderson
-
Christian Science found me about eleven years ago in...
Ruby A. Gardner
-
From the time I was old enough to walk I had trouble...
Mary Sullivan
-
I am indeed grateful for what Christian Science has done...
Josephine L. Hannah
-
Twelve years ago I began the study of Christian Science...
Pearl B. Harden with contributions from William Russell Harden
-
Signs of the Times
with contributions from Caroline F. E. Spurgeon, Gerald B. Hurst, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Albert P. Mathews, Robert Fairbairn, Emma Sarepta Yule