Every
substantial building, from a skyscraper to a modest bungalow, is carefully designed and erected according to approved standerds of construction, and a properly laid foundation precedes actual construction.
A testimony
was once given in a church by a woman who said: "I suffered from physical inharmony and worked against it according to the teaching of Christian Science.
Reading
the political and international news of the day, one can hardly fail to become aware that world thought is to a large extent obsessed by a belief in the imminence of war, and is more than doubtful of the possibility of devising means of averting it.
The
dearest desire of the Christian Scientist is to love so deeply and universally as to be ready at all times to comfort and console, to heal sickness, or so-called hopeless disease, and to lift the burden of sin.
Among the many interesting statements sent in to the office during the year, indicative of the trend of thought, I think the following are worthy of report:
William Brantly, Committee on Publication for the State of Tennessee,
Jesus said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation," but the Christian Scientist is undismayed, because he knows that through these very experiences he is proving that nothing can separate him from the invisible, but nonetheless real, "love of God.