In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

A common remark, even among professing Christians, when some very desirable possibility is contemplated, is this: "Oh, I'm afraid that is too good to be true.

Government

In what regard does government by Christian Science differ from the human sense of government?

Prayer

We are told in the ninth chapter of Luke that Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James and went up into a mountain to pray.
To students of Christian Science, God's presence is becoming the truest, most real fact in life, bringing joy and peace, eliminating fear, sickness, and sin.

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.