In
reading the story of Thomas' unbelief one is impressed with the wilfulness of his doubt, with the wretchedness of the dejection and discouragement into which it must have plunged him, and with the gentleness and pertinence of the Master's rebuke, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
There
is perhaps no passage of Scripture which is so much loved and so often quoted by Christian Scientists as the Master's words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Nowhere
is there to be found a stronger refutation of the claim that is even now occasionally put forward, namely, that Christian Scientists do not pray, than is given on <a class="tome-reference"
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
enables its student to distinguish clearly between that which really express Life and that which does not; in other words, between the true and the seeming.
Among
Old Testament worthies there is no more interesting figure than that of David, the story of whose youth is a romance, of his manhood a tragedy, of his old age an epic.
Religion
has always admitted that there should be not merely a distinction between right and wrong, but a separation between good and evil, so far as it is possible to establish this on the human plane.
A fundamental
of the existence and continuance of the branch churches of the Christian Science denomination is that they shall have a democratic form of government, which of course means that in general they shall be governed by the entire membership, and not by one person or by a small coterie.
