The
flags of many nations lent their bright hues to the walls of Mechanics Hall, where the Christian Scientists from the East and the West, the North and the South, met as one brotherhood to worship in sacred silence the God of Israel,—the omnipresent Love who forgiveth all our iniquities and healeth all our diseases.
It
was a memorable night for the world, when three men presented themselves before the door of an inn at Bethlehem, asking the strange question, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?
There
is no proposition, I suppose, upon which philosophers of all ages are more agreed, than the separation of every created object into its reality and its apparent reality.
I should
like to express deep gratitude to God, the giver of all good, for the heavenly food with which He has so oft fed me through the Christian Science Journals, Sentinels, and Quarterlies.
One
of the most beautiful and helpful truths that has dawned on my consciousness as I have gradually come under the influence of Christian Science teaching, has been the new and clear definition of the word "Angels:" "They are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be".
