October 9, 1978
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A rich young man once came to Jesus and asked what he should do to inherit eternal life.
Most people believe they are physical persons who were born of human parents with a selfhood apart from God.
This can be a challenging statement to prove in today's world, where we often hear of loss—loss of health, of possessions, of identity.
Talking contemptuously about people's shortcomings is a destructive habit easy to fall into; and we may find we do it most often concerning the people closest to us or those who are accomplishing something good in the world.
Because man is naturally the child of God, he is the direct recipient of God's goodness and love.
The new trend toward ethics and morals is not primarily a swing back to biblical authority, but it is a challenge to the "everything is relative" brand of conduct of recent years.
They are wise parents who teach their children at an early age the importance of including in their conversation the words "please" and "thank you.
A friend of mine who sells Oriental rugs and invited me over to see her collection of prayer rugs said, "Don't expect them to be perfect! Not only do you have to allow for mistakes a machine would rarely make, but the expert rug makers will put small, deliberate errors in because they believe it would be wrong for man to be perfect—only Allah is perfect.
While a state of fear may often be quite easily identified, sometimes it is so latent or so deeply buried it may be undetected.
I mourned you as a mortal person—The way you looked,The things we did together,The tears and laughter.
Until about twelve years ago I lived for worldly things.
There was a complete about-face in my life after I learned of Christian Science, and that God is Love and never made any form of sickness, sin, or death.
Last fall I went to my friend's house in another city on vacation.
I am very grateful for many years of excellent health with only my understanding of Christian Science to aid me.
I have been a student of Christian Science for fifty years.
My testimony in The Christian Science Journal of January 1961 describes my introduction to Christian Science by the small children with whom I baby-sat as a teen-ager.
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