It
is interesting that the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, uses the sun as a symbol of God in her explanation of the truth.
When
Job was afflicted with physical sickness, when he had lost all his material possessions and every evil influence seemed to besiege him, his wife, giving him the counsel of defeat, asked him (2:9), "Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
In
her book "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy has included a brief article entitled "Taking Offense," which could well be considered a very important study for all mankind.
How
often it has been said with longing: "Oh, if we could but start all over again! If only the world could be made anew so that everything would function properly!" Humanity's ardent wish for a fresh start, though it appears altogether vain to mortal sense, is nevertheless capable of realization.
Nowhere
in the recorded sayings of the Master, Christ Jesus, is there a more important or significant statement than one that is given in the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel.