In
that wonderful discourse named "The Sermon on the Mount" Jesus presented to his hearers seven distinct qualities of thought, and the corresponding blessings which would be the reward for each particular thought.
The
early belief that a prophet was one who through some special gift of Providence could foretell future events has gradually given way to the conception of a prophet as one who by faithfulness to the highest ideals and consecration to supreme good has so cleared his consciousness of materiality that he is fitted to perceive in some measure the operation of divine law and is enabled to work out with more or less mathematical precision the results that must inevitably follow any line of activity.
Paul's
message to the Corinthians, that God "will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape," has comforted and heartened many a Christian pilgrim on his way to the heavenly city.
A study
of the words and works of the great Exemplar, in the light of Christian Science, reveals certain incidents in the life of Jesus applicable to the solution of every human problem.
Throughout
the Bible, the word sleep constantly is used in a symbolic sense, frequently conveying the meaning either of death or a deadness and dullness of apprehension of things spiritual.
