Musicians
sometimes take a well-known selection like the "Rock of Ages" and utilize its strong and easily recognized themes, which are enlarged and given new harmonic setting in what are known as variations.
Christian Science
pleads for an undivided Christianity, and in this it should have the active as well as sympathetic support of all who desire to see Christ's kingdom come on earth.
Christian Science does not deny that the physical body is real and tangible to the mortal senses, nor that its suffering is real to those senses, but it does deny that they are real to God, or to His image and likeness, the perfect man.
In confirmation of the homely truth that there is much of good in the worst of men, comes the assertion of Judge Cowing of the New York Court of General Sessions, that in his twenty-seven years' experience on the bench, sitting at the edge of the never-ceasing stream of crime and vice and evil, he has "found in every man more to praise than to condemn.
Thus
sang the ancient Psalmist, and through the study of Christian Science I have come to realize how much has been done for my soul,—my consciousness,—and this is proved in a new sense of all that comes up in daily experience.
Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
