In
the fourth chapter of Paul's second epistle to Timothy he speaks of the "crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge," shall give to all those "that love his appearing.
Very
closely related to the belief that some particular person is "the practitioner" for a certain locality, is the mistaken sense that a person who has once been the patient of Mr.
To hear a great artist is always to experience a great delight, and gain an added sense of that human capacity which, as Christian Science makes clear, is grounded in the divine.
In
Science and Health we are told that as the sun is the center of our planetary system, so God is "the central Life and intelligence around which circle harmoniously all things in the systems of Mind".
It
was the Master, who never disdained to appeal to the human sense by means of some familiar figure, who spoke to his disciples of the "many mansions" of the Father's house.
"When
I am sick, I take the best remedy I know of, and then get down on my knees and pray God to bless it to my relief; and as I see it, this is the sensible thing to do.
A subject
which has been much discussed for years, not only in the secular press but in the religious press as well, is the alleged failure of the Christian church of today to accomplish that for which it stands and for which its various denominations were organized by those whose yearnings Godward made them dissatisfied, or rather unsatisfied, with the practical results already achieved by organized religious effort.
Students
of human nature speedily discover that the conduct of most people is far more frequently determined by a habit or tendency than by a sense of duty or of right.
Strangely
enough, apart from the teachings of Christian Science, faith and intelligence are not supposed to have any direct relation to each other, and this explains to large extent the antagonism to Christian Science expressed by many who suppose that the faith which it inculcates is divorced from intelligence.
