In
my first investigation of Christian Science, and before I accepted its teachings, a few observations impressed me very favorably, and I submit them in the hope that they may commend the Truth to others.
One
of the greatest obstacles to spiritual progress, and one that is perhaps more subtle than most others, is the temptation to think we can never overcome ourselves, in other words, self-condemnation.
Hundreds
of years ago, in the very dawning of the fourteenth century, a great painter, Giotto the Glorious, took up his brushes one day and painted a portrait on the wall of one of the rooms of the Bargello in Florence.
For
three consecutive years it has been my privilege to attend the Annual Communion service in the Mother Church, and each time I have returned home with a happier heart, and with renewed animation and determination to do better work in the Master's vineyard.
