If there is one particular lesson which the world needs to learn, perhaps more than any other, it is that hatred and resentment cannot be indulged by anyone without the penalty therefor being paid.
The
mountains were a subject of mystery to a little girl who lived in the plains of the United States,—so many of the interesting experiences told in the Bible took place upon the mountain top, and Jesus so often went, to a mountain alone to pray.
In
the light of the teachings of Christian Science, the story of Joshua before the city of Jericho takes on a richness of meaning very pertinent to the stressful times in which we live.
The
first mandate of God, "Let there be light," has no small significance to him who is working his way out of the darkness of materiality through the unfoldment of spiritual reality.
It
is probable that every aspiring Christian has at some time been tempted to think that he could escape from the unideal, or at least accelerate his spiritual progress, by separating himself from contact with his fellows.
In the first and third verses of the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the apostle Paul gives a most comprehensive and luminious definition of Christian Science.
For
some time the writer has been impressed with the spiritual fact concerning the incentive and impulsion of work well done, and she has been led to the conclusion that when one loves to do the work undertaken, whatever the task may be, the result is satisfactory.
