How
prone are mortals to dwell in the past, because of the joys they think it has usurped or the regrets it has not surrendered! Indeed, many hold so tenaciously to the happiness that was once theirs that they fail to experience the abundant measure of good which is awaiting them in the present.
When
the children of Israel were ready to enter the land which, according to promise, was to be their home, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant stepped into the waters of the Jordan before the dry ground over which the people were to pass could be seen, before "the waters that come down from above" were cut off.
In
Revelation, John records one of his momentous spiritual experiences as follows: "I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
The
prophet Ezekiel represented God as saying, "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Herbert W. Beck, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly Committee on Publication for Northern California,
The need of the hour is to know God and His Christ, to know what the real man is, and to know what true love is and how to use it, and to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth.
Alexander S. Milne, Committee on Publication for Northern and Eastern Districts of India
My attention has been called to a recent issue in which appears an article containing the following statement: "Faith-Healing gradually developed into what is known as Christian Science.
