Through
prophetic insight the assurance came to Hosea that the Lord "will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
For
the Israelites, as we read in the Old Testament, there was prescribed a strict and formal ritual in the religious ceremony of purification, whereby the dual purpose of cleansing and expiation was observed.
Human
planning without seeking divine guidance in formulating plans is frequently found to be not only futile, but quite detrimental to progress along right lines.
When
Christ Jesus extended the invitation, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," it was probably addressed, primarily, to those who were oppressed by ecclesiastical laws as well as to those who were under the civil domination of the Romans.
When
Jesus prayed, in the following words, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us," he was proclaiming a divine universality which is the basic teaching of Christian Science.
