Patience
has always been regarded as a human virtue, whether considered theologically as obedient endurance of the afflictions imposed by God, who was thought to send sin, sickness, and death to discipline and bless His children, or as quiet and courageous waiting for some hoped-for event, even though one had no assurance that it would occur.
Among
the meaningful Bible events is that concerning the rich young man who, kneeling before him, saluted Christ Jesus with, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Christ Jesus
clearly understood the nature of evil and its hatred of Truth, and on occasion told his followers of some of the forms it would assume and what arguments it would use in order to deceive mankind.
In
her writings Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, indicates that one of the essential steps in becoming an earnest and an honest student of this Science is the continual expressing of gratitude, not alone silently, but audibly.
