Articles

Throughout the Scriptures are found glowing promises of health and all manner of good things which a loving Father waits to bestow on the children of men, and yet the world seems to abound in sickness and all manner of evil. This strange condition, this problem of human need and divine supply, has puzzled the thoughtful in every age.

IN Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy often speaks of the apparent obscuration of Mind, Truth, by mortal belief, under the figure of clouds obscuring the light of the sun.

THE fundamental teaching of Christian Science is that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468).

So  much of human nature has for so long been governed by all the conflicting elements of the anarchy called self, that government by Principle lies, like an undiscovered country, far beyond the borders of finite comprehension. The mental standard and moral codes of the civilized world hold much that approximates a high and selfless order of living, yet even this fruit of righteous effort may spring from right desire rather than from an enlightened understanding of the relation of God's man to his governing Principle, God.

Box G, Brookline, Mass. , July 12, 1909 Mrs.

Is not the evidence of ease on the very front of all the greatest works in existence? Do they not say plainly to us, not "there has been a great effort here," but "there has been a great power here"? It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things and this is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by the help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way, but lose some pounds of our own weight.

WE are told in the Bible that the "effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. " Experience, observation, and reading seem to teach that, until very recently, only in exceptional cases has prayer availed at all.

THE individual into whose realm of experience Christian Science has penetrated with its healing balm, is inevitably inspired to "be up and doing. " In his joyful recognition of the opening out of splendid possibilities for good, he is ready and consistently eager for work.

IN St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians we read: "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

From my earliest boyhood I knew the Bible thoroughly from a Calvinistic standpoint, and when I reached manhood I had the privilege of listening to some of the greatest preachers of our time in England, Scotland, and Holland. During the time I was in Scotland, I heard also some of America's great preachers.