Law
is the fundamental of growth or the restriction of liberty, just as a man believes that it deprives him of something desirable or helps him to retain it.
The
cynic who said that "gratitude is a lively appreciation of favors to come" spoke more truly than he knew, for surely one element of true gratitude is the recognition that as God, good, is all, only good is in store for man.
In
the Scriptures we read: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God;" that is, man is sustained spiritually.
WHEN
Mary Baker Eddy startled the world many years ago with her statement of the nothingness of matter, there were very few who were willing to accept her discovery, and when she further announced that what religious belief had called God is not a person but Principle governing the entire universe, many people objected.
ALL
down through the centuries Bible readers have thought that they knew something of the meaning of the First Commandment and that rendered a measure of intelligent obedience thereto.
WHAT
the kingdom of God is to the one enlightened by the teaching of Christian Science, so is the far country to the groping mortal; the one knows that he rests within, the other seemingly toils without.
