The
attitude which Nehemiah and his collaborators held in building the wall around Jerusalem is the attitude which inevitably leads to the solving of problems, the correcting of situations, and the achieving of success, prosperity, and peace by individuals and nations.
Consciously
or unconsciously, mankind has ever sought that light of Truth which alone can make free and satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart.
Nothing
is cherished more devotedly than is Christian Science by those who have, through their study and application of its teachings, proved day by day that it is the restatement of the very truths the Master taught, the truths by which he healed the sick, supplied the needy, raised the dead.
To
human sense it would seem that we are continually beset by false pictures which may at the moment appear to be true, but which are in reality as substanceless, lifeless, fantastic, and fleeting as the fabric of a dream.
In
the fifteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel is Christ Jesus' familiar and well-loved parable of the prodigal son, who wasted his substance in the vain search for selfish happiness.
In
Section 6 of Article VIII, entitled "Alertness to Duty," in the Manual of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind.
