Christians
urged to pray for the establishment of world peace, and it is well that they should do so, but the question may pertinently be asked, How can Christians pray effectually for the peace of the world unless they have first demonstrated peace in their own experience?
The
supposition that it makes little difference what one thinks, so long as what he says and does meets the human requirements, is completely disproved in Christian Science.
Neither
the Founder of Christianity nor the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science gave any indication that qualities of endurance would not be needed by those who put Truth first in their lives.
Referring
to what she terms "the Magna Charta of Christian Science," Mary Baker Eddy says on page 247 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany": "It stands for the inalienable, universal rights of men.
A medical
doctor who is a member of the staff of a large hospital in New England was recently quoted in the press as having said that many symptoms of so-called heart disease often regarded as alarming need not be so considered.
Men
are constantly picturing to themselves the dawning of a golden age, an age in which poverty will be unknown, where sickness and sin will have been overcome, and where harmony and peace will reign supreme.