Who
has not found it delightful, while walking through some beautiful garden, to have the soft breeze bring to him the fragrance of a rose or of a gardenia?
Running
through the Scriptures and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy is a thread of joy which shows this quality to be absolutely essential to the worship of the one God.
One
of the lectures on Christian Science which I attended soon after I took up the study of this religion began with the lecturer's saying, in substance, "As a child, whenever I heard adults say, 'God's will be done!' I knew something dreadful had happened.
How
life is enriched by the cultivation of heartfelt gratitude! One eighteenth-century author, Samuel Johnson, wrote, "Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Through
the elimination of the barriers of time and space, the inhabitants of the world are being drawn closer together, and it is important that they learn to understand each other and to live together in peace and good will.
In
times of national crises, inspired men and women have generally appeared on the scene, ready to devote themselves to leading their people higher in the scale of liberty and self-reliance.
In the October, 1895, issue of The Christian Science Journal our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, under the caption, "What We Can Do for the Children," called upon loyal Christian Scientists "to organize immediately a Sunday School for the children.
About eight years ago I experienced a healing of a small growth which appeared on my nose and which grew progressively worse over a period of many years.
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