Many
centuries have passed since Paul addressed his epistle "to all that be in Rome;" and time has but accentuated the brilliance of his analysis of the unprofitable nature of the works of the flesh and of the life-giving power of Spirit, and the wisdom of his exhortations to holiness contained therein.
Few
chapters of the New Testament have been more carefully examined by Biblical scholars than the sixteenth chapter of Mark, which relates how Christ Jesus commanded his followers, among other duties, to carry far afield, even into all the world, the gospel of good tidings he had taught and so wonderfully exemplified.
When
the translators of the King James Version of our Bible gave us that portion of Paul's epistle contained in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as an explication of charity, they accentuated a subject of which mortals can never afford to lose sight.
The
careful student of the Scriptures is invariably impressed with the completeness of Jesus' demonstration of the power of Truth in destroying erroneous and inharmonious conditions.
It
would surely be impossible to find any one prepared to say that he has to-day attained to a measure of harmony with which he is perfectly satisfied.
Every
Christian Scientist who is really in earnest, if asked to formulate his greatest desire, might easily answer: To advance in the demonstration of the Science of being.
No fact becomes more certain to the student of Christian Science than the futility of so-called speculative theories, as agencies for healing humanity of its ills, individual and collective alike.
All
the world would prefer not to be afraid, for it is quite willing to admit that "fear hath torment;" but how to be saved from fear is a question which has puzzled both Christian and infidel, both the sage and the unlettered.
