Frances
attended the Christian Science Sunday School and had had many proofs of the healing power of the truth—the truth of the one perfect creator, God, and of His perfect creation, man.
In
the fifth chapter of John's Gospel is an account of a healing by Christ Jesus of an impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, and it brings out several valuable points in Christian Science.
As
a rebuke to the pride, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy which appeared to dominate the thinking of the religionists of his day, Christ Jesus related the parable of the publican and the Pharisee who "went up into the temple to pray".
What
a beautiful quality is patience! It brings to mind such Christian attributes as steadfastness, kindliness, serenity, calm endurance in seeming adversity, and unwavering faith in the goodness and eternal rightness of God's creation.
As
a small boy the writer was taught to turn when confronted by discord to the truth of God and man as found in "the scientific statement of being" on <a class="tome-reference"
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Jesus
of Nazareth in his parable of the talents cites the arrangement of a householder who as he departed on a journey left certain money to his three servants in amounts of five talents, two talents, and one talent respectively.
Goliath
caused great consternation among the Israelites when he flung his challenge at them, but David, the shepherd lad, accepted it as an opportunity to glorify God.
