MORTALS
live in a state of uncertainty as to whether God's help is available or not; indeed, they often appear to be in doubt about His very existence.
WHAT
a lesson there is in Peter's exhortation to godliness, given in the third chapter of his first epistle: "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
THE
twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation, in its account of the struggle between Michael and his angels and the dragon, graphically sets forth the triumph of good over evil, of truth over error.
What
joyous words were those of Paul to the church of the Thessalonians: "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Most
of mankind is more or less concerned about claiming its own; indeed, men have been largely educated to believe that they could be sure of possessing what really belonged to them only as they claimed it.
An
emphatic statement of the necessity for Christian Scientists to change from a material to a spiritual basis of thought is found in the exposition on anatomy which appears on page 462 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.