Our
Leader has thoughtfully provided means whereby students whose teacher is no longer with them may have their association meetings conducted by one "who is ready for this high calling".
The
prophet Isaiah, deeply troubled if not disheartened by the apparent wickedness of Jerusalem, pronounced upon her the judgment of the Lord, with a degree of severity bordering on harshness.
Almost
from the time of the disappearance of the risen Savior, many Christian have looked with yearning hearts and eager eyes for his reappearance on earth "in the flesh.
The
Christian Scientist is in a far better position to discriminate between several courses of action, should they present themselves, than any other person.
Occasionally,
Christian Scientists are heard to say; It is "old-fashioned" to handle error; it is no longer necessary to do it; what we need to do now is to dwell in the absolute truth.
The
history of the Christian church shows unmistakably that the spiritual understanding which enabled Christ Jesus and his disciples and followers for nearly three centuries to perform their wondrous works gradually disappeared and was finally lost from human experience.
One
of the deepest needs of the human heart, though perhaps somewhat undefined, has always been to find a God whose will could be relied upon as perfect, expressing yesterday, to-day, and forever the all-inclusiveness of active good.
One
of the things for which Christian Scientists are deeply grateful is the revelation which Christian Science has brought to them of the existence of spiritual sense.