"May
God enable my students to take up the cross as I have done, and meet the pressing need of a proper preparation of heart to practise, teach, and live Christian Science!" In this deep, fervent prayer.
Christian Science,
contradicting the false evidence before the physical senses, and positing its sublime statements of Truth upon spiritual law, reveals to us the immortal fact that the real man forever lives in accord with and in obedience to his perfect Principle, God.
In Christ Jesus
' prophecy of wars and uprisings, he foretold the abrogation of individual rights which accompanies attacks by the seeming forces of evil.
Jesus
of Nazareth concluded the masterly exposition of his doctrine known as the Sermon on the Mount as follows: "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
A Clear
promise from God, speaking through the prophet Isaiah, has been of inestimable value to countless seekers who are striving to follow the guidance of Truth: "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.