Semper Paratus

BY HENRY A. MANNING.

THIS was the motto of Lord Clifford, and we are reminded in our text-book that it is also Truth's motto. It has struck me as peculiarly fitting to define one of the most salient features of Christian Science.

Always ready! What can be so inestimable in value to man, as that divine Principle of Being which is ever at hand to relieve every human need? At the very beginning of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, a profound and impressive truth is stated in these words: "This apodictical Principle points to the revelation of Immanuel, 'God with us,' the sovereign Ever-presence, delivering the children of men from every ill 'that flesh is heir to.' " Again, on page 43: "To-day the healing power of Truth is demonstrated to be an immanent, eternal quality, or Principle, instead of a phenomenal exhibition."

Always ready! "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock." The Mind which is in Christ seeks an entrance into the human consciousness in every age, and Christian Science is swinging wide the door of mortal thought upon its rusty hinges, enabling many thousands to welcome the guest who has been so long misunderstood.

Always ready! Let us not forget the injunction of our beloved Leader, on page 37 of Science and Health: "If Mind was first chronologically, is first potentially, and must be first eternally, then give to Mind the glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due unto its holy name.'

Semper paratus! Are we also ready?

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