On
one occasion when Christ Jesus taught in the temple, his hearers, impressed by his wisdom, asked (John 7:15), "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
A Consecrated
study of Christian Science inspires one to devote his whole life to serving the sacred Cause of Truth, a devotion which necessarily involves great personal sacrifice.
Voltaire
, man of letters, philosopher, and defender of the oppressed, led a life which was as full of extremes as his character was full of contradictions.
Are
we apprehensive of something we think might happen tomorrow—some dreaded outcome to a physical problem, some bills that must be paid, some job we might lose?
Who
that has found in Christian Science the truth of being has not yearned for a greater understanding of Truth, a more comprehensive grasp of the eternal facts of Life, of reality?
"Become
conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,— neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints.
At
one Thanksgiving Day service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, a student of Christian Science found her heart filled with gratitude for the Lesson-Sermon to be read the following Sunday— "Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.