He
who accepts the teaching of Scripture that God is the Alpha and Omega of being, the only cause and creator, is prepared to accept the logic and naturalness of the Master's statement that to know God is eternal life.
Woodrow Wilson
with contributions from Bainbridge Colby
The
season approaches when it behooves us to turn from the distractions and preoccupations of our daily life that we may contemplate the mercies which have been vouchsafed to us and render heartfelt and unfeigned thanks unto God for His manifold goodness.
Before
awaking to the truth of being, through the teachings of Christian Science, we perhaps found little comfort in the statement from the Bible that "in him we live, and move, and have our being.
Fear
of loss is so prevalent in the human consciousness that joy in the possession of any form of good is often almost swamped by the fear of losing it.
One
of the problems that may seem most difficult in Christian Science is the ever realizing of God as what He is, divine Principle, Life, Mind, and the difficulty arises from the fact that most of us, and the world generally, and our ancestors for centuries before us, have been brought up to think of God as some glorified man.
All
students of the Bible are familiar with Jesus' parable of the talents, which begins, "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.