On
page 247 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our beloved Leader has written, "Immortal men and women are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness which transcend all material sense.
There
may be times when we can seemingly become so engrossed with the thought of accumulating, conserving, or managing dollars and cents in order to pay debts or meet daily obligations that the spiritual demand, the debt of loving-kindness to our fellow men, is forgotten.
A Christian Scientist
was asked to give a word of assurance to one who, having lived far beyond the human allotment of threescore years and ten, believed that his earthly span of life was almost spent.
A Practitioner
who was helping a student to see the unreality of a discouraging difficulty urged him to let his expectancy be of the fulfillment of good.
On
page 123 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" we may read, "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas.
One
of the most joyful experiences in Christian Science comes to us when we begin to see deeply into the meaning of some passage in the Bible or in our Leader's writings which we had not previously grasped.
