Napoleon
is credited with the sage-sounding remark, "Man is immortal until his work is done," which may convey to the human sense some realization of the relative importance of a man and the purpose to which he is consecrated.
Many
will readily recall the arguments pro and con which have centered around the doctrines of faith as preached by Paul and that of works as enunciated by James.
When
tribal chieftains counted their women among their goods and chattels, when medieval knights rode to holy wars inspired by towered ladies, when women themselves were content to languish in boudoirs reading tomes of long-drawn-out sentimentality, the world was still firmly in the grasp of the traditional account of creation as given in the second and following chapters of Genesis.
When
David wrote in the Psalms, "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God," he was surely only telling us in another way that true happiness comes only from God.
Students
of Christian Science, often in referring to the church with which they were identified before coming into Science, speak of their former church as being an orthodox church, thereby implying at least, if not admitting, that Christian Science is not orthodox.
Although
the book of the prophet Jonah in the Old Testament contains but four short chapters, these are nevertheless of vital importance to the student of Christian Science to-day, unfolding as they do the necessity for spontaneous obedience to divine Principle and pointing out the great lesson that the supposititious beliefs of evil cannot be attached to either persons, places, or things.
