Men give counsel, but they give not the wisdom to profit by it. To ask wisdom of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Meekness moderating human vanity inspires wisdom and procures divine power; so when alone we have our thoughts to watch, in our families our tempers, and in society our tongues. Human lives are yet uncarved, in the rough marble, encumbered with crude, rude fragments, and awaiting the hammering, chisseling and transfiguration from His hand.
Great only as good, because fashioned divinely, were those unpretentious and colossal characters Paul and Jesus. Theirs were modes of Mind cast in the moulds of Christian Science; Paul's by the supremely natural transforming power of Truth, and Jesus' by his original scientific sonship with God. Philosophy has never produced, nor can it reproduce, these stars of the first magnitude—fixed stars in the heavens of Soul. When shall earth be crowned with the true knowledge of Christ?
