In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

NOW

Though often reminded, we are apt to forget that the present moment is the only time we really possess; it is the only time that is really in our keeping.

CONTINGENCIES

How often we are tempted, when thinking over events which are past or still proceeding, to make use of the words, "It would have been better if we had done this, or that," instead of what we actually did do; and much valuable time is thus spent in ineffectual speculation as to what would have happened if we had done what we did not do.

CONCERNING PROGRESS

Looking at the immense distance between present attainment and the perfect ideal, there may come to the student at times a feeling akin to dismay at the relatively insignificant portion of that distance which he has covered; or he may go to the extreme of regarding his problem too indulgently, excusing himself with the thought that he has all eternity in which to do his work.

THE "THORN IN THE FLESH"

As the clear notes of truth begin to make their way into our awakened consciousness through the teaching of Christian Science, as given to this age by Mrs.
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We believe that the ascension of Christ Jesus demonstrated the reality of the spiritual and the unreality of that which is termed material.
The purpose of Christian Science is simply the correction of all kinds of error, no matter how time worn or how new to the present sense of the individual and of the human race in general this error may be.
We are of the opinion that the best way for a clergyman to prevent his flock from migrating is to make his own gospel so practical and desirable as to forestall any desire to look for "greener pastures.
The story about Christian Science, quoted in your issue of the 20th inst.
It will be found upon investigation that thousands of individuals have proved the efficacy of Christian Science to lift them out of the very depths of want as well as to heal them of every kind of physical and moral disease.
Christian Science is an enigma to the critics, and will continue to be an enigma, as long as they reject the explanation of the healing given by Mrs.
That portion of this work [Faith and Works of Christian Science ] which deals with Christian Science as a religion, its genesis, and the life of its Founder, is so crowded with misstatements, misinterpretations, inuendoes, exaggerations, distortions, and strained and unwarranted interpretations advanced to give sinister meaning where there is no warrant for the inferences conveyed, together with the restatement of falsehoods, calumnies, and slanders that have time and again been refuted and disproved, that it would take a volume to expose them.