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.
In
his epistle to the Christians in Ephesus, Paul admonishes the brethren to establish unity, the better to escape being tossed about by the diverse winds of doctrine and the machinations of evil men.
Although
the entire Christian world is practically a unit in the tacit acknowledgment of God's omnipresence, it still appears to live as though little conscious of it.
The
student of the four gospels can scarcely fail to be impressed with the conclusiveness of Christ Jesus' proof of God's ever-presence, of His availability and power to meet the needs of mortals.
