It
is recorded that when Paul and his companions were shipwrecked on the island of Melita, while he was gathering a bundle of sticks to put on the fire a viper came "out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
When
one learns in Christian Science that all things are mental, that everything one cognizes is a mental concept, the importance of differentiating between what is true and what is false is seen.
In
order to keep their lecture work from becoming stereotyped or a matter of routine the members of a certain branch church on one occasion found it helpful to consider lecture giving from three standpoints: what the church members give to the lecture, what the lecture gives to the church activity, and what the lecture gives to the community.
H. Clay Parker, Committee on Publication for the State of Arizona,
Christian Scientists believe that the master Christian made a true and potent statement when he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.
The words of wisdom Jesus spoke two thousand years ago have rung down the centuries to reach us, and are none the less true now as then: "Unless ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
