AN
acknowledged authority on good manners and politeness wrote thus to his son: "Know, then, that as learning, honor, and virtue are absolutely necessary to gain you the esteem and admiration of mankind, politeness and good breeding are equally necessary to make you welcome and agreeable in conversation and common life.
HUMAN
experience has always seemingly been at the mercy of dangers and difficulties of one kind and another, and mankind is ever asking why this is so.
OF
the various motives which have roused men to action during the history of the world one of the most general is the desire to gain power of some kind.
In
expounding the law to a certain advocate, Jesus the Way-shower declared the first and great commandment to be, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and further explained: "The second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
No
matter how black and overwhelming the clouds of erroneous thinking may seem, the student of Christian Science can always rest secure in the knowledge that, since he is conscious of his own existence, consciousness must be.
When
the seventy disciples returned to Jesus expressing their joy that the devils were subject unto them through his name, Jesus warned them saying, "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
A man's
most urgent need, if he would work out his own salvation and do his part thereby in working out the salvation of the world, is vision, not the vision referred to as the act of seeing materially but, on the contrary, the act of spiritual perception which enables him to take cognizance of the unfolding of the purposes of infinite Mind through spiritual thinking, through founding his thinking upon Principle.
