To
one taking a walk in the country in the early spring, how drab and dull the way may seem if the gaze is directed downwards! He may see a muddy road, littered with broken branches and withered leaves, fields colorless and lifeless, the grass bent and downtrodden, and perhaps in the lea of a bank a pile of melting snow.
It
was the privilege of the writer, one clear evening, to direct a powerful telescope upon one of the tiny specks of light which shone in the heavens, set in motion the clock-regulated machinery designed to keep this speck in the line of sight, and gaze upon the planet Saturn.
Under
the heading "Moral Obligations," the duties of Readers in all Christian Science churches are set forth in Article III, Section 1, of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy in part as follows: "They must keep themselves unspotted from the world,—uncontaminated with evil,—that the mental atmosphere they exhale shall promote health and holiness, even that spiritual animus so universally needed.
