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"And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. "— Luke xiii.
When our erected Temple stands erected in Mind, all will have fallen into their own places. It is not for any one to say where he or she belongs.
Up to this time, I have once or twice alluded to the Bible as my Schoolmaster. This it literally was, as I early learned to read from it with the help of the sailors.
The following extract copied from a letter to me recently received from a wellknown Christian Scientist, may at least amuse the readers of our Journal. After doing justice to this subject I had dropped it, as we naturally turn away from a fossilized falsehood.
How prone is mortal mind, alias human nature, alias human wisdom, to judge! Ever since the serpent whispered its subtle error into the listening ear of Eve, and led her to fancy she had a knowledge of good and evil, human wisdom has been striving to assert itself and demonstrate its assumed superiority. Human wisdom would long since have driven Divine Wisdom out of the world, if it could have done so.
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. — Matthew xxv.
It is the great achievement of modern times that men have acquired something like a definite knowledge of the material world about them. Accurate knowledge has supplanted vague speculation.
"(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. " 2 Cor.
TO say there is no evil, or animal magnetism, because God is Love and there is nothing beside Him, is scientific. But to say there is no such claim to meet and reduce to its native nothingness, is unscientific for this is -equivalent to saying we have reached absolute Harmony, hence have overcome all error.
THE recent remark of a lady, now a living picture of health, has left a deep impression on my mind. She said, it almost made her tremble to think how near she came to giving up Christian Science treatment, simply because she had not been healed at once.