Article February 1, 2014

Sermon

Originally published in the April 15, 1891 issue of the Christian Science Series (Vol. 2, No. 24)

The 1st Epistle of John, 5th Chap, and 20th verse. — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true; and we are in Him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal Life.

The material world is to-day experiencing the greatest revolution in thought that has ever been witnessed by mortals. The traditional religion of our ancestors, with its time honored creeds and rituals, before which all have bowed, as unquestionable in vital conception and strength to lead man to the Divine Source of Eternal Life, is publicly questioned, and privately denounced as wanting in spiritual power, to meet and destroy the seeming force of evil, which appears to control mortals, and from which they are struggling to free themselves; and to-day the spiritually inspired have turned from a dead faith and an undemonstrable creed, to a living Christ, and are asking, are we awakening from sleep, and have we been so deep in the Adam dream that we are only now able to hear the whisper of ever present Truth? “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?”

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