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.
What
a word wherewith to rejoice mankind—this word health, intimately associated with its kindred words hale and whole! What buoyancy and beauty, what symmetry and wholesome peace lie enfolded in this word, and yet how little it is generally understood! Every one wants health, therefore no one should need be compelled to seek it; but, unfortunately, while everybody believes in health, all are not agreed as to its real meaning.
Bible
students are sometimes puzzled by the account of the barren fig tree which was withered by Jesus' rebuke, but Jesus rebuked error in whatever guise it presented itself to him.
In
the seventh chapter of John's gospel our Master is quoted as saying to the Jews who sought him at the feast in Jerusalem: "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
