The
earnest desire and effort to abandon a material sense of oneself and of one's fellow man and to bear witness only to man's true selfhood seems dogged at every step by a mesmeric opposite view of God good, and His creation.
As part of her prayerful work for the Reading Room one day, a librarian gave deep consideration to the following By-Law which appears in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy.
In
considering the counterfeit material universe which mortal mind believes is its limited and often uncomfortable dwelling place, one may find himself visualizing the sphere we call the earth whirling about in space, enveloped in a nebulous and more or less invisible gaseous shroud frequently referred to as the atmosphere.
Many
earnest Christians who are seeking salvation from the ills of the flesh long for the healing Christ, but often, believing Christ to be limited to a particular person in a far-off day, they, like Mary of old, cry.
"God
is not moved by the breath of praise to do more than He has already done, nor can the infinite do less than bestow all good, since He is unchanging wisdom and Love.
