When
the Christmas season has come and gone, thought is sometimes tempted to turn backward with a feeling of regret that the same glad spirit of good fellowship which characterized it seems no longer to permeate the hearts of mankind.
If
you were asked to express in one word what the world most needs, what all men most want, though they may not so define it, it might well be harmony.
An
acquaintance once said to a student of Christian Science, "I have been traveling from place to place looking for the promised land, but I have never found it.
They
were a people who for forty yearsPitched their great tents against the burning dark,Drank from the brook at Eshcol, and shed tearsUpon the meads of Ain and saw the arkBorne before Moses.
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This testimony is written to encourage those who may be struggling with a sense of loneliness, difficulty, and indecision because of being the first or only one in a family to study Christian Science.
I began the study of Christian Science, not because I had need of healing, but because I was persuaded it was the truth, for I had seen my mother and my sister become sincere students of this religion.
Virginia Macfarlane
with contributions from Marion Bibb
My sincere appreciation of Christian Science and my gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy, as its Discoverer and Founder, prompt me to give this written expression of love.
A skylight
window in an attic room,to some, might have meant discouragement and gloom;but one brave heart refused to acknowledge dangeror insufficiency.
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