In
the closing chapter of Revelation we have a wonderful picture of the things mortal eye hath not seen, and which cannot enter into the heart of mortal man; yet they are spiritual realities, the things known of God and prepared for all His children.
Christian
people are frequently compelled to try to explain to themselves, if not to others, the reasons for the saddening delay in the healing of humanity's hurt.
Reading
the very many expressions of gratitude that have come from those whose necessities have been met in a measure through the war relief fund subscribed by Christian Scientists in the United States, one can but look upon this endeavor as an exemplification of the teaching found on page 518 of Science and Health: "The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
The
Messianic psalms of David, and the wondrous prophecies of Isaiah and other Old Testament worthies, focused the spiritual aspiration and communal hope of the Hebrews upon a messenger of God who was to be both their leader and savior.
We can never afford to lose sight of the goal, which is spiritual perfection, and which we can never reach until we are willing to take all the steps demanded by wisdom and Love, though these call for constant self-denial, as our Master taught.
In
the olden time, when the children of Israel were on the way to the land which to them was a type of man's divine inheritance, they were warned by Moses never to stray from the straight and narrow path of Truth.
The
teaching of Christian Science vigorously demands that union of spiritual knowledge and its ideal expression which is portrayed in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians.
It
is surely commendable, and wise withal, that the Christian Science practitioner should endeavor in his treatment of the sick to be governed by the rules of practice laid down by Mrs.
