The
practitioner of Christian metaphysics becomes convinced that he prays most successfully for the patient who is most receptive of the healing truth.
No one in the world to-day responds to Paul's exhortation, "Be ye thankful," more readily than does he who has experienced some measure of the marvelous blessings which accrue to the beneficiary of Christian Science.
The
high purpose of that little band of religious zealots who have come to be known as the Pilgrim Father, in seeking asylum on the wintry shores of the New World, has been the subject of almost innumerable panegyrics in song and verse, in history, biography, and romance.
How
wonderfully does the Psalmist in the seventy-third psalm depict the condition in which mortals ofttimes find themselves when he says, "My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
In
one of Paul's epistles, after urging upon those whom he calls "the elect of God, holy and beloved," the necessity of putting off all that is un-Christlike as well as of practicing manifold Christian virtues, he concludes his admonitions by saying, "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.