How
often men have wondered—yes, doubted—the moment after they had uttered their prayers, whether they would be answered! Prayer to the unenlightened thought has always seemed vague and uncertain.
In
the Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, under the general topic "Discipline," and the subtopic "Guidance of Members".
Christian Science
makes it quite clear that salvation from sin and all phases of evil may be attained only through reform, that is, through regeneration.
The
Master's words, addressed to the disciples when there arose "a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest," epitomize the question of service to the Christian Scientist.
