What
a difference there is between merely believing in God and having some understanding of Him! Belief, if it be accompanied by faith, is certainly not to be despised, but it cannot stand comparison with spiritual understanding.
We
wish to call the attention of all Christian Scientists to the desirability of giving the pamphlet entitled "Permanency of The Mother Church," published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, a larger circulation than it has yet received.
Students
of the four Gospels can scarcely fail to recognize that with one or two exceptions the healings of sin and disease performed by Christ Jesus were immediate, instantaneous.
At
the present time there is an evident need for all Christian Scientists to beware of giving assent or credence to any of the erroneous propaganda which clamors for their attention.
"In
patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.
The
reward which James foresaw for those who resist temptation was both sure and incomparably precious: "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
