Were
one to search the pages of the Old Testament, he would find no more definite and appealing statements of the demands of true worship than appears in the words of the prophet Micah.
Throughout
the ages materiality has dogged the footsteps of the spiritually-minded, advancing plausible reasons why the pursuit of the ideal should be surrendered, or else threatening disaster, always in the attempt to deter the progress of one who has taken his stand for the good and the true.
Christendom
has come pretty generally to believe that only through the transformation of thought which reforms the sinful can the kingdom of heaven be entered.
When
Paul wrote, "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace," he indicated both the cause of all human misery and its cure.
In
proportion as it is utilized, God's law of infinite progression helps each one just where it finds him; helps him to rise above deficiencies in health and character; to conquer all kinds of limitation; to overcome the habit of criticizing which is apt to characterize self-opinionated youth, or the frailty which the so-called carnal mind would attach to advancing years.
No sign, perhaps, is more characteristic of our presentday civilization than the greatly increased attention given to the care of the body by civilized peoples in general.
Charles I. Ohrenstein
with contributions from The Christian Science Board of Directors
Beginning July 1, 1929, and for the coming year, the following members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship will voluntarily withdraw from active service as lecturers, that they may engage exclusively in the healing work and practice of Christian Science: