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 page 133 of "Miscellaneous Writings," where Mrs.
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.
To
grow more spiritually wise is to grow more discriminating, more scientific in our thought, and one of the most fundamentally corrective and broadly illuminating contributions made by Christian Science to the truth seeker is its new and provably true definition of nature, of God's universe, and of life.