A common
tendency of mortals is to postpone the experience of good to some future time, while they seem ever ready to accept evil as a present reality.
In
that spirited exchange of words between Jesus and the Pharisees gathered in the temple and seeking to confuse him, as recorded in John's gospel, the Master uttered statements of deep significance to the students of his precepts and practices in all time.
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.