Of
course there is no Moloch any more than there is a misleading personality named Jack-o'-lantern lighting people to destruction in swamps and morasses.
Throughout
the entire world there has been held by all peoples a very definite belief in a judgment day when wrongs would be righted and the wicked punished.
That
sentence with which the chapter entitled "Christian Science Practice" is concluded, found on page 442 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was considered vitally important by its author, Mrs.
Let
us arise and leave behind the old theories which have been found wanting, the sterile philosophies, the threatening theologies, and the sad solemnities of mourning for the dead.
Thought
goes back to a spectacular gathering when Moses said to Israel, "This day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God," and from Ebal and Gerizim came in the loud voice of the Levites the curse upon disobedience and the blessings upon fidelity to God.
The
idea of independence is unquestionably dear to all men, so much so that all are eager to claim what it implies, without perhaps considering that they will of necessity be forced to prove their right to its possession.
Mortals
like to be enthroned in a temporary majesty and to claim the place and attributes of a god; and the self-glorification of Nebuchadnezzar and the mob-glorification of Herod afford typical examples.
