If
I had any idea that the general government was so administered that the liberty of conscience was endangered, I pray you be assured that no man would be more willing than myself to revise and alter that part of it, so as to avoid all religious persecutions.
Try to follow Jesus Christ, not because you believe exactly as your father believed, but because you want to live a good life according to your lights.
Only to the sinner who has in some measure found that there is no permanent peace, pleasure, or profit in evil thinking or doing, can the gospel of Christ give out its saving and redeeming power.
Ever since the allegorical talking serpent in the Garden of Eden attempted to pattern after the Creator by making gods of men, the human mind has been busy in its attempts to simulate divine activity.
A Christian Scientist could accomplish but little by simply asserting that there is no such thing as disease or discord, he must prove their insubstantiality by grappling with and overcoming them.
To object to Christian Science because it denies the testimony of the physical senses, betrays a serious ignorance of even natural science, for the explanation of all phenomena, including the fundamental ones of form, color, and mass, rests on theories contrary to what the senses behold.
The
old proverbs and bits of wisdom, as well as the stories of ancient mythology which have stayed with us from our school days, often come back with renewed force as we see them in the added light which Christian Science throws upon things.
In
the tenth chapter of John, we are told that Jesus was at Jerusalem at the "feast of the dedication," which some historians designate the "Dedication of the Altar," and others the "Lights," one of the observances being the illumination of the temple for eight days.
