How bright, so many times, are the promises of life held out by the so-called human mind, how sparkling the hopes, how great the expectations! With what confidence one faces these bright promises, only too often to have them betrayed, and fade drably into unfulfillment.
When
you and I are tempted to put on a display of bad temper, to indulge in unjust criticism, to yield to sin, or in any other way to let our thoughts and acts be governed by the godless material mind, the opposite of God, we have then and there an opportunity to put into effect true self-government.
Without
doubt alert students of Christian Science in every land cherish the desire to be present, sometime, at an Annual Meeting of their Mother Church in Boston.
In
reading the stirring account of the Acts of the Apostles as related in the New Testament, one is impressed with the frequency with which the record of their acts is prefaced with the words "with one accord.
If
you should stop the first person you met in the street and say that you had some extraordinarily good news, namely, that there is no such thing as physical causation, your news might not be very graciously received.
With
what serenity does one who speaks the truth face friend or foe! Note the calmness, the assurance, of a witness in a suit at law whose testimony unquestionably is based on certain simple, provable facts.
What
is called depletion is a dream process of the so-called human mind and is utterly unknown to God, divine Mind, whose goodness is inexhaustible, and whose law is imperative.