Ever
since accepting as true the allegorical account of the creation of Adam and Eve, mankind have labored under the delusion that mortals are the fallen children of God and must wait until the second coming of a personal Savior, or until after the change called death, in order to be redeemed from this condition.
In
a discussion on the subject of labor, a student of Christian Science remarked to another: "To go back to the work one did ten years ago seems retrogression.
The
realization of his individual responsibility to Principle is vital to the personal progress of every Christian Scientist and will very largely determine the value of his service to humanity.
In
the seventh verse of the fifteenth chapter of John's gospel, Christ Jesus promises, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
To
be prepared for every emergency is the ideal position for men and nations, and in the endeavor to attain this ideal nations have built up great armaments and men have carried about with them innumerable impedimenta and paraphernalia of all descriptions, only to find when the emergency is reached that something needful is missing.
No critic, of the many who have attempted to do so, has yet succeeded in presenting one valid statement proving that Christian Science is not true and Bible teaching.