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SUCCESSFUL BUILDING

From the May 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A large congregation was at Chickering Hall, April 24, to hear a sermon by Rev. M. B. G. Eddy on this text, Luke xiv. 30: "This man began to build, and was not able to finish."

The wise housebuilder considers carefully his location and materials; and still greater care is needed in moral structures.

Adam's character-building was unfinished, because he was dishonest and cowardly. When the idea of evil entered he yielded to it, and Satan, or error, triumphed in Adam's thought.

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