The
explanatory note to be found in The Christian Science Quarterly contains the phrase, "The Bible and the Christian Science text-book are our only preachers.
Owing
to the obscuring influences of material belief the word faith has to a large extent lost its original meaning,—that which is given to it in the Scriptures, especially in our Master's teachings.
There
can be no doubt that at the end of two and a half years the world is heartily tired of war's hatreds, barbarities, and sufferings, and that there is today a genuine desire for peace.
Throughout
the Scriptures much is said about the divine bestowals, so much indeed that we might naturally look all about us to see humanity in possession of every good thing.
However
desirable Christian uniformity and conformity may seem as a matter of expediency, it has no real value unless it be the expression of spiritual unity.
It
need not shock the working Christian Scientist to be told that the carnal mind will probably offer him the choice of becoming either a wolf preying upon the lambs or a good shepherd feeding his flock "in green pastures" and leading it "beside the still waters.
There
is a very beautiful passage in the twenty-fourth chapter of Genesis which tells how Abraham sent away from the land of Canaan a trusted servant to find a wife for his beloved son Isaac.