In
studying the Lesson on Love, for Communion Sunday in the Mother Church, I could but feel that a pulsation from the great heart of Love had reached us in our Wednesday evening meeting of June tenth, before it took form through font and press in the Lesson-Sermon.
with contributions from A. S. COATS, CELIA PARKER WOOLEY, GEO. T. ANGELL
"Ah," says one, "but this special outpouring of the Spirit upon the early Christians at their baptism was for the purpose of empowering them to work miracles, and the age of miracles is past.
To the influence of Goethe we may ascribe the constant disposition to crush the human being by contrasting and comparing him with the Infinite, as if the true greatness of man did not consist precisely in the consciousness of the Infinite which surrounds him without impeding his action; as if the eternity which is before and behind us were not also within us; as if from high above the earth we tread a voice did not reach us from time to time, bidding us onward, in action, in faith, and in the consciousness of our dignity.
Christian Science frequently refers to the "errors of belief," and to illustrate what is meant we may say that if a person were to claim that twice two is five, we should all agree that it was a mere belief, that it is not true, and by applying science, or the truth of the principle of mathematics, to this conclusion.
