Amid
the noise and hurry of the city one may long for the quiet of the mountains or the forest, but in the physical solitude far from railroads and people one may yearn for the life of the city.
There
was no point which Christ Jesus was more determined upon insisting than the metaphysical one that cause always approximates effect, and that the one must be judged by the other.
The
authors of the church catechism had a broader sense than is usual of the Eighth Commandment, when they instructed their readers to keep their hands from picking and stealing, and their tongues from evil speaking, lying, and slandering.
A man
cannot hate another man whom he really knows, for though he may pity the mortal weakness that he observes, he must comprehend that the suggestions to which the weak one has succumbed are only such as mortal mind would offer in diverse forms to all.
Chemistry
, as it is ordinarily thought of, deals with the transformation of matter, and whatever is material is, of course, the very opposite of the truth as revealed in Christian Science; but as Mrs.
From
the tower of Babel and the temples of Egypt to the mansions and skyscrapers of to-day material building has seemed difficult, because it represents a human concept of permanence that is impossible.
Whoever
thinks of Christian Science as presenting to the world intangible ideals does not understand what tangibility consists of, for to think in terms of material things is not to know reality.
