The greatest mistake that we Christian Scientists can make, is to think because we have "come into" Science that we have entered the infallibility zone.
Sometimes
when the way in Christian Science seems very straight and narrow, we are tempted, like the Children of Israel, to sigh for the fleshpots of Egypt, and to look back with longing to our old ways of thinking and living, when so much less seemed to be required of us intellectually and spiritually.
The
first verse in the responsive reading in the lesson-sermon on "Love," which we all read with profit so recently, was as follows: "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.
In
days gone by I often heard the minister in church say, "Let us pray;" So I say, "Let us pray;" first, that we enter not into temptation, and let us look ahead far enough to be sure this prayer is from the heart and genuine.
Work is the seamless garment of grateful praise to God, its hems broidered with living flowers of hope and faith, its fruit the peace which passeth all human understanding, its crowning benediction, "Well done, good and faithful servant.
There
is a popular belief that chronometers, those delicate pieces of mechanism which enable the mariner to tell to a nicety where he is upon the ocean, are made only in England.
