There
is a good deal of what the world calls human nature in the feeling which prompts Christian Scientists to look with great satisfaction upon the constantly increasing number of members of The Mother Church and of the branch churches in the larger cities.
There
are few if any outside of the teachings of Christian Science who are awake to the fact that the flesh and Spirit "are contrary the one to the other," as St.
He
who has learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called lesser things of life, has discovered the secret of the solution of his problem.
It
is sometimes a trying experience to the young and enthusiastic adherents of Christian Science, and ofttimes to those who have been longer grounded in the faith, to find that they are not exempt from trials and temptations, and that constant vigilance is needed to keep in the straight and narrow way which is the direct road to the kingdom and the Father's house of "many mansions.
There
is nothing quite so gorgeous as a jeweled morning, and those who revel in its freshness and song gain a vision with which no other offering of the day can compare.
Christian Science
begins with the individual by making him desire and seek after better things than those which seem to prevail when he turns to the truth.
No
chapter of the Book of books is more impressive, more wonderful in declaration, or more worthy of our study than the seventeenth chapter of John, for it is a marvel both of content and of diction.