In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Working Out Our Salvation

On page 39 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, we read, "'Now,' cried the apostle, 'is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,'—meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life.

True Speaking

Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians says, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Fulfillment

Never has there been any doubt as to man having a specific duty to perform upon all occasions and under every manifested condition; just what that duty was or how it was to be performed has, however, very often seemed a conundrum.

Signs of the Times

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Christian Science is derided and maligned by two classes of persons,—those who for ulterior motives knowingly and willfully misrepresent it, and those who in their misguided zeal believe that they are rendering a service to God and to mankind in so doing.
To trust God alone for healing, except as a last resort, is stupendous folly, according to the revivalist whom the Tribune quoted to the effect that praying for the sick without calling a doctor is as presumptuous as was Satan's temptation of Jesus to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple and expect God to save him from death.
The clergyman who attacked Christian Science in a recent issue, calling it a false philosophy and a lie, has unwittingly applied these offensive terms to the teaching of Christ Jesus.
The present world upheaval in religion, politics, and in all the affairs of men is a condition to rejoice the heart of the true metaphysician.

Giving Testimony

When our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, provided that all Christian Science churches should hold Wednesday evening meetings, she made it possible for everyone who has been benefited by Christian Science to give to others a "reason of the hope that is in" him, a measure of the joy that has come to him through the application of the rules of divine Principle, as taught in the Christian Science textbook.

The Certain Sound of Truth

In the fourteenth chapter of I Corinthians Paul says, "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
To every student of Christian Science there comes a time of development when he has to give up his dependence on human relationship and friendship, and to turn his thoughts to the realization of what Mrs.

Intelligence

From time immemorial the human race has acknowledged, either consciously or unconsciously, the existence of some intelligence as compared with which it considered the human intellect to be nothing, and this acknowledgment has been a common feature of all shades of religious belief throughout history.