The
confidence which Christian Scientists have in their religion has frequently been commented upon by other religionists, who have seen how they have remained steadfast under ridicule and perhaps persecution, and have persisted in spite of these in carrying on the work of the Christian Science movement.
Every
rebuke administered by the Christian Scientist at the right time and in a healing spirit should leave the individual with a sense of having been freed from some incubus, and so brought nearer the realization of his spiritual identity.
On
that first Christmas night the shepherds of whom we love to read were faithful in guarding their flocks; but their gaze was not so earthbound as to make them unobservant of an unusual glory in the heavens.
For
about eight centuries before the birth of Jesus, the people Israel had been subjected to conquest, dispersion, exile, or tyranny by one despotic power after another—Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Macedonia, Egypt, Syria, Rome.
