For
many centuries earnest Christians uninstructed by Christian Science have striven to obey God's will; but it has been the general conviction that it is impossible to obey God's commands entirely here on earth; that only in "heaven" can complete obedience to God be demonstrated; and that heaven can be reached only through what is believed to be the experience of death.
As
defined in the dictionaries, office means "function, activity, a duty to perform, service, business, responsibility, that which a person does for others, or a duty that arises from one's relation with others.
Another stage has been reached in the litigation which ensued when, on March 17, 1919, The Christian Science Board of Directors voted to dismiss Lamont Rowlands and John V.
In
the fifth chapter of Matthew, which contains the Beatitudes, the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, we read the following statement made by Jesus: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
From
all students of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and, in a greater measure perhaps, from those whose literary tastes have led them over a wide range of literature of all kinds, not only the beauty of the language of this book in which most beautiful ideas are expressed, but the very happy choice of simile and metaphor used throughout it, must evoke appreciation.