Students of the Scriptures have frequently found it difficult rightly to regard the presentation of Truth in its eternal, unchanging, and absolute aspect, and the application of Truth to the human footsteps relative to progress, in overcoming the obstacles of mortal sense. The many writers of the sacred books, living in different ages and under varied governments, and experiencing various degrees of inspiration, sometimes represented God as "beholding the evil and the good," and a mortal as mourning, "My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass." At other times the writers rose to the perception of God as "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and of a man as saying: "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. ... I will walk within my house with a perfect heart."
There is a noble old hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal starting with the words,
"God is working His purpose out
As year succeeds to year."
