When
it is recognized that holiness includes that which is true, intelligent, lovely, glorious; when it is seen that it is but another name for divine wholeness, for health, for all that is of God, good, then men will be willing to seek it with their whole heart and soul and strength.
The
transcendent truth, the reality of the spiritual, and the correlated fact, the unreality of the material, pervaded the teachings of Jesus throughout.
The
Christian Scientist is keenly appreciative of the fact that Christian Science supplies him with all that he needs for the working out of his salvation.
In
common usage the positive is that which is affirmative and constructive; the negative that which is opposed or contrary to the affirmative or positive, and is therefore destructive.
Were
words more consolatory ever uttered than those of Isaiah in his great exhortation to repentance: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool"?
How often have these words of Isaiah brought consolation and peace to the weary and heavy-laden: "He giveth power the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength"! The very words themselves carry confidence with them and the power to renew faith; and with the renewal of faith there is a diminution of weakness and a proportionate increase in strength.
