I have
a beautiful hydrangea which I call my Christian Science plant because it was raised from a little, crushed and wilted slip, and because it has reminded me so forcibly of the passage of Scripture which says that God made "every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.
The
Scriptural statement that man must work out his own salvation invests time with vital interest and value for him who would achieve that salvation, for his ultimate triumph over evil will be hastened or deferred according to the right or wrong use he makes of his time.
The Christian Science teaching that "matter" is phenomenal rather than real is very much misrepresented in order to excite ridicule on the part of those who have never been taught to discriminate between reality and appearance.
Once,
long ago, in the Land of Dreams, there was a barren valley where the dense fog had spread its impenetrable blanket so thickly that the blue sky was never seen; the sun never shone into its gloomy depths; the fresh breeze never blew across its sunken wastes.
