When
beset with dread of his enemies, with desire for revenge and dreariness of heart, the Psalmist cried yearningly, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Belief
in creation as material and in human personality as man is the seeming source of the false claims which mortals must deny and destroy in order to gain the true sense of man's selfhood.
In
his epistle to the Philippians, Paul draws a sharp contrast between the materially-minded—those absorbed in the gratification of the physical senses—and those who, like himself, were striving to rise out of the bondage of matter into the realm of Spirit, where Christ Jesus had shown the way.
How often has the Christian life been referred to as a warfare! Christianity, as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, has given to all who have accepted it a spiritual idealism, and it is between this idealism and the evil beliefs of the world that the warfare is waged.
The
student of Christian Science, if he be thorough and sincere, is also an earnest student of the Bible, for the sacred Scriptures contain the truth which is revealed in Christian Science.