The
following incident is one of many that have come to me during the six years of my study of Christian Science, and illustrates the difference in results between wrong methods and right.
In
the twelfth chapter of Judges is found an account of the test applied to the fleeing Ephraimites, who by denying their nationality sought to escape from the victorious soldiers of Gilead and regain their own land.
Possibly
every Christian Scientist has at some time in his experience reached a period of calm when, instead of indulging the tendency to rest on his oars, he has been sufficiently wise to work with unremitting perseverance and trust.
Mankind has not yet arrived at that state of perfection demanded by Christ Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," but we are daily striving for that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," knowing that through that Mind alone it is possible to attain perfection.
