To mankind matter seems to be real—very real at times; and material sense, if believed in, ultimates in sin, disease, or some other form of error with which the so-called human mind appears to be acquainted.
Last
November, Sir Arthur Eddington, famous for his knowledge of astronomy and physics, delivered an address to an international radio audience of great size.
Although
the New Testament does not always furnish a clear and dependable order of events, it furnishes ample reason for concluding that the first statement made by Christ Jesus in his public ministry was this one: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand".
When
Jesus entered the house of Jairus and found, as we read, "the minstrels and the people making a noise, he said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth".
The
jailer at Philippi who had the custody of Paul and Silas put to them as Christian missionaries the practical question, "What must I do to be saved?
It
is strange how, through misplaced faith in the obduracy of sin and disease, the inevitability of death, and the propriety of sorrow, some individuals are deceived into upholding their own oppressors.
Christian Science
is insistent in its declaration that there is only one Mind; that this Mind, which is God, is all-inclusive, embracing the universe and man; and that in reality only Mind and Mind's creation are true or real.