In
warning the inhabitants of Ephesus to avoid instability and the dangers of being blown from their course and tossed about by the winds of false opinion to the confusion of all who should give ear, Paul, in an effort to promote spiritual unity, likened the Church—the head of which is Christ—to the human body with its various members "fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
It
is admitted by all who have some understanding of divine Principle—that is, of spiritual being—that the knowledge which they posses has brought to them a restfulness and a mental peace which they had not known until the truth began to dawn upon them.
One
of the first steps taken by our Leader in preparation for the dissemination of Christian Science was to establish its healing power, beyond the possibility of refutation; for she fully realized that without proof, her teachings, revolutionary to a startling degree as they were, would make scant headway against the established teachings of theology and medicine, strongly intrenched in vested rights and ancient customs reinforced by the prejudice and inertia of the human mind.
Volumes
have been written on the subject of the Lord's Prayer with the hope of helping men to understand it better, and the writers have accomplished good in the measure of their recognition of its true meaning.
Christian Science
brings home to every students with peculiar emphasis the necessity for unqualified honesty in purpose and practice, as a fundamental requisite to spiritual progress.