As
one prayerfully contemplates the truth that divine Love and God are one, he begins to understand why the Apostle John, in the simplicity of great reverence, could say.
At
this vernal season when nature awakens from its long winter repose and adorns the earth with bud and blossom, when birds greet the day with joyous songs and the sun mounts higher into the heavens, a sense of renewal takes possession of thought.
At
the early age of twelve years Jesus had already perceived and accepted his God-appointed mission: to bring to sinful, suffering humanity the knowledge of the Christ.
Throughout
the world on Easter morning there will be heard in sermon and song and on the lips of countless Christians the glad words: "He is risen!" "Christ is risen!" What is the meaning of the resurrection morn to Christian Scientists?
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Into my class of eight- and nine-year-old pupils came a child who, although orderly, obedient, and generally enthusiastic and receptive, did not participate in the singing of the hymns.
During the years in which our family have endeavored to live the teachings of Christian Science, we have had proofs that man is governed by Principle and that he is not subject to the vagaries of chance.
I am grateful that my parents enrolled me in the Christian Science Sunday School at the age of eight, for it was there I learned of an incorporeal God who is divine Principle, Love.
In gratitude for the help I have received through reading the testimonies published in the Sentinel and in the hope that, in turn, I may be of help to others, I should like to share the following experience.
Reading the many testimonies of healing in the Christian Science literature, I am prompted to write of the blessings I have received from my study and application of truth.
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