TO
many of us the Bible was a sealed book before it was read in conjunction with the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, but to-day thousands are able to share in the treasure which has been waiting to be given to the world for generations.
THE
habitual reader of the literature of Christian Science or the regular attendant on its services hears the omnipotence and the immanence of God so constantly reiterated and becomes so thoroughly familiar with the teaching, whether he puts the clear understanding of it into practice at all times or not, that he may sometimes forget that the vast majority of people in the world know little or nothing of a God who is Love, a God who, as the psalmist says, "forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
BECAUSE
of unmistakable glimpses of the Science of being, the perception of an actual existence here and now of that which is nonexistent to mere bodily sense, Christian Scientists are Christian Scientists.
IN
human experience one often finds to-day, as did the patriarch Abraham, that the call comes to go out to a land that "I will shew thee," that we know not of.
TO
the neophyte in Christian Science, it is naturally difficult to accept the verity of its insistent declaration that all that is real is perfect and eternal.
HOW
many of us in the early study of Christian Science have been puzzled by the apparently disquieting statement in the ninth chapter of Proverbs, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"?
THE
decree had gone forth in Babylon that for thirty days the king was to be the only God of the nation, and any one found going contrary thereto would be given to the lions.
