Passing
a new public building lately, admiring the beauty and grandeur of its outline, noting its massiveness and strength rising so grandly above the surroundings, I could not help going back in thought to the time the same vast piece of masonry was begun, remembering how long it was before any evidence of a building appeared to the onlooker.
In
traveling the pathway which Christian Science points out to us as the one road to heaven or harmony, we seem to be persistently beset by a claim or condition which says we are not advancing, are not doing our work, are not living as we should and cannot, therefore we may as well stop trying, go back to the old way of living according to the dictates of human sense and self-will, where we are free to carry out the suggestions of selfishness.
"And
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness.
At
first glance, Jesus' invitation would not seem to extend to all people; but only to a few unfortunate ones, who, in some unaccountable way, are victims of labor and burden-bearing.
