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.
No
student of the Bible can fail to be impressed by the emphasis put upon the necessity for full faith in God under all circumstances, expressed in both the precepts and the examples of the prophets, teachers, lawgivers, and leaders of spiritual thought from Abraham to Christ Jesus himself.
The
human mind, itself a simulation, a counterfeit of divine Mind, appears very loath to be instructed out of its fallacies, since by its very nature it partakes of evil and falsity, having no relation to or traffic with Truth, for Truth and falsity never mingle.
When
Christ Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," surely he was referring to the sustaining and rest-giving power of the Christ, Truth.