Through
Christian Science the facts about God and man have been presented to mankind in terms so clear and cogent that all may understand; and, moreover, through actual demonstrations, conclusive beyond argument, proof of the truthfulness of its teachings has been adduced.
When
Paul writes to the Corinthians, "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity [love], it profiteth me nothing," he presents a view not yet universally accepted on the subject of human service.
Above
all the disciples of Christ Jesus, except the beloved apostles themselves, it seems certain that Paul was most successful in bringing home to his auditors and readers the great importance of the Nazarene's message.
Many
men either consider that they are weighed down with responsibility for themselves and others, or else they imagine they can shift all obligations on to their fellow-men and thereby free themselves from all responsibility.
Mortal
mind, the supposititious counterfeit of divine Mind, in belief is ever suggesting that evil is real and able to thwart or annul the good intentions and efforts of men, causing them to be sorrowful and sick, and making their lives inharmonious and unhappy.
Paul's
words to the church at Corinth, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God," aptly express the thought of Christian Scientists to-day on their dependence upon God.