The
writers of the Old Testament books were fond of referring to the art of building as a symbol for mental construction because it is one which could be easily understood, very simple but very permanent in its character, and one which requires accuracy of measurement and careful and correct judgment in its early stages.
Humanity
has long been conscious of the fact that God is able to destroy as evidence all seeming conditions of inharmony; yet has it been prone to believe that God was afar off and oftentimes blind to its struggles and deaf to its appeal.
ONE
of the beliefs in materiality which often comes up to the Christian Science practitioner, as well as to others, is the belief in time as a healing agent.
WHEN
I first found Christian Science and caught a glimpse of this glorious teaching, when I first began to realize that I was standing at the portal of infinity, I went through the experience Peter must have gone through when he saw his beloved Master walk over the waves.
A POINT
that has often occurred to me in considering the question of gratitude is that the real, the spiritual man in the image and likeness of God, infinite good, cannot be conceived of as experiencing the feeling of gratitude in the way that mortals commonly experience it, since the ordinary human sense of gratitude presupposes, whether we realize it or not, "the knowledge of good and evil," a "knowledge" that has no place in God's kingdom.
