AS the key to well-being, Christian Science unlocks the hopes, aspirations, and successes in human experience, and harmony is the result. As the rewarder of constant and faithful effort in behalf of good, harmony brings to men and women that uplifting, satisfying, and holy bliss which revives and renews as nothing else can. Coming with healing in its wings, and portraying the greatness of peace and concord, the height and depth and breadth of Truth and Love, it lays bare the nothingness of discord and bids the thinkers of earth arise and conquer this illusion of material sense, this bold, defiant intruder into the kingdom of happiness, contentment, and progress.
There is nothing more promising and praiseworthy than effort for the establishment of genuine harmony. In the individual life harmony is the one thing needful, the one thing which is, consciously or unconsciously, most sought after and respected, most esteemed and cherished. In the home it is the cement of affection, binding all hearts in good will, purity, and loveliness. In the state and nation it begets that silent and superb effectiveness which makes strong and useful citizens, and which serves to dethrone the so-called forces of evil that would tend to undermine and destroy. In the church it expresses the beauty of holiness, the Christ-like spirit, thereby putting to flight mere mortal opinions and inclinations, petty strifes and differences, and demonstrating the omniscience and omnipotence of the one Mind, one presence, even God.
He who has had to do with discord, who has been swayed by its deceptions and wounded by its pangs, and who has at length awakened to the radiant realities of harmony, knows something about the joys of true living. He who has been called to detect and uncover the falsities of inharmony, and has striven with might and main to be faithful to this sacred trust; who has had clear and strong convictions and has stood unflinchingly for them, no matter what the temporary cost; who has braved the storms of adverse criticism, persecution, and ostracism, praying always to God for guidance and trying to obey His behests, and who has been crowned with some measure of success, can admonish, in the lines of Longfellow:—
