The
question is sometimes asked, What are the advantages of attending the services of the Christian Science churches, since the leading feature of the service is the reading of the Lesson-Sermon, which may be read at home repeatedly and at one's convenience, thus saving time and the inconvenience of attendance at a church?
The
Psalmist of long ago sang reverently, "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker;" while in Romans we read: "It is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
It
was after Christ Jesus had declared his Messiahship in these words, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life," that he gave utterance to one of the most momentous sayings which has ever reached the ears of men.
Mortal
existence, with all that pertains to the belief of matter as a reality, is inseparable, it seems, from the concept of time, that is, of duration.
