Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? I Samuel i. 12.
The great spiritual dearth in popular religion, combined with the ever-increasing amount and variety of disease and suffering in the land, call forth unmistakably the Prophet's lament, as in olden time,—a lament to which we do well to give heed. Now, as then, God is the only refuge.
In First Corinthians, xii. 13, we have an all-assuring promise, showing the escape provided by the understanding of Truth in Christian Science, which defines Jesus as the Way, manifested by his teachings and demonstration.