What
a wealth of comfort, hope, and assurance is given us in the Christian Science textbook! Therein is found the answer to every problem when its teaching is understood.
The
alert student who examines the writings of the New Testament cannot fail to find that, aside from the numerous parables and allegories which Jesus used to illustrate his teaching, he stated for the sake of his disciples in simple and clear language certain precise rules through which to demonstrate his teaching.
If
every little word I'd sayI'd measure carefully today,I wouldn't say a thing unkindTo anyone, nor would I mindA hasty word that someone mayExpress to me, because I'd findThat I'd forgive and knowIt could not hurt; and so,Let us then weigh each little word,And be just like the joyous bird,Who sings his song, in spite of weather.
It
is recorded in Mark's Gospel: "And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
When
Christ Jesus declared, "I and my Father are one," he set forth in one brief sentence the keynote to every decision which men are at any time called upon to make.
with contributions from Coralie R. Chauvin, William Kenneth Primrose, Wheaton R. Allen, Nina Ely Scribner, William C. Wright, Jean H. Lintecum, David Guthrie Randles, Blanche I. Fellows
When I took up the study of Christian Science seventeen years ago, it was for the healing of osteoarthritis, which I had been told was incurable, and which had attacked me in my right arm and shoulder.
For more than twenty years Christian Science has been my only physician and my guide—the Comforter to which I have turned in every need and never in vain.
Now to those earnest ones who seek to findThe road that Jesus walked, that they may goWith humble steps that selfsame way, and knowThe joys of true discipleship, shall MindReveal this sought-for way.
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with contributions from Coralie R. Chauvin, William Kenneth Primrose, Wheaton R. Allen, Nina Ely Scribner, William C. Wright, Jean H. Lintecum, David Guthrie Randles, Blanche I. Fellows