The
falling of the leaves in the autumn is generally associated with a sense of loss; and more particularly so where those varieties of trees grow in which the change is rapidly accomplished.
Moses
, the great lawgiver, saw the need for mankind to turn away from the false belief in gods many to the understanding of God as Spirit, as the one power.
In
the nineteenth chapter of I Kings is an account of an experience through which the prophet Elijah passed; and the passage will well repay careful study by the student of Christian Science.
How
difficult seem those periods of waiting, of apparent inactivity, when the heavens seem as brass and no sign is given! If only a little word of assurance could be heard, only a whisper that the reward of faithfulness is at hand! Faithfulness! But how can we remain faithful when no activity seems allowed us?
The
world to-day is interested in the newly discovered splendors of ancient Egypt, and is filled with amazement at the extraordinary preservation of articles fashioned thousands of years ago.
What
the Christian Science movement needs to-day is more working Christian Scientists,—those who have attained a degree of spiritual understanding and can consistently say that they are "in Christian Science.