"Remember,
thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee.
How
often we are strengthened and comforted in what seem trying and difficult circumstances by God's angel messages, which never fail to shine forth from ever-present Love, and which lift men out of the seeming shadows, however drear and dark they may be, and reveal to them the saving and redeeming fact of God's ever-presence! As the glorious light of God's all-presence dawns upon us and we learn that ever-present good leaves neither place nor power for anything unlike good, fear and anxiety are dispelled, and evil more and more loses its supposititious power to alarm and enslave us.
As
one Christian Scientist endeavored to understand the changeless value and identity of man, a picture came to mind of a small boy who once had been given several small coins as a reward for weeding a garden.
Humanity
needs leadership today, not of persons or organizations, but divine guidance, which leads thought out of the dark wilderness of materiality into the light of freedom and spiritual understanding.
At
services of the Church of Christ, Scientist, held in various parts of the world the following announcement is made by the First Reader: "You are cordially invited to attend our church services.
If
one were to ask the first ten individuals he met their concept of good, he undoubtedly would receive ten varying replies which would be certain to include one or more of the following: material wealth, a successful career, satisfying companionship, congenial environment, and fame, To define good in terms of material things or conditions and think of it as something external to the individual is indigenous to the limited thinking of mortal mind.
