Paul said to the Corinthians: "My beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable;" and Christian Scientists should at all times keep this advice in clear mental view, by recognizing the importance of giving loyal support to our publications.
We
read in Science and Health that Jesus defined everlasting life as "a present knowledge of his Father and himself,—the knowledge of Love, Truth, and Life".
Jesus did not buy the pardon of the world with his life, and so save the individual sinner from making his own atonement to divine Love; that is to say, from demonstrating his spiritual oneness with the Father, as a child of God.
The optimist who believes that the world is getting better every day and that altruism and brotherly love will yet dominate the commercial, social, and religious life of mankind the world over, must have been rudely shocked when he read in a local paper of St.
In
my experience as a mother, even before coming into Christian Science, I always felt, after one of the rare occasions when I seemed driven to the use of any sort of corporal punishment for the little ones, that I had failed, even though obedience had been attained.
WHEN
Job was having the argument with his friends, he recognized some of the things that were brought to light as being disagreeably true concerning himself, while many things of which he was accused he could deny with a clear conscience.