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Christianity can have but one object, and that is redemption. It is redemptive both in Principle and in practice.

There is an old Spanish fable which tells of a man rich in this world's goods who, having houses and vineyards in abundance, was yet never satisfied with the weather. It was too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet; always there was cause for complaint, and his grapes were never as good as they might have been, though they were the best in the province.

True creation is spiritual reflection. In "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

In any time of testing, when the combined forces of evil beliefs are arrayed in deadly combat against the forces of good, it is the duty of each Christian Scientist to keep uppermost in thought Mrs. Eddy's emphatic statement given on page 232 of Miscellany, "The right way wins the right of way.

When Martin Luther, in 1517, nailed his theses to the church door at Wittenberg, he struck a blow for all time at the belief that in order to be healed of sin a man must have a priestly, human mediator between himself and God. All the Protestant world now knows that one may turn to God for salvation, and that God is able and willing to take away his sin.

Christian Science, by multiplied proof and demonstration, is to-day showing to all the prime importance of the familiar saying, "What thou seest, that thou beest. " This Science of man reveals the fact that if one sees from the standpoint of a matter consciousness, he will have lost sight of the one and only cause, Spirit.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read, "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. " In the world of sense, light is accounted a concomitant of material processes by which physical objects and their relationships are perceived.

In these days of unusual revolutions of thought, not a few, catching glimpses of the government of God as revealed in Christian Science, may speculate as to how this supreme rule of divine Principle is to affect the future of human government. Some, glancing backward over history with slight knowledge of the subject, may hope that within what has been called theocracy will be found the final order whereby harmony is to be maintained on earth; but the present needs of humanity for world-wide law and order do not encourage thinkers to build much on visions, the perversions of which would only tend to upset the best ways and means of government now being developed through democracy.

Although the psalmist clothed his longing in the poetic imagery of the Orient, he nevertheless expressed a common human emotion when he exclaimed, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. " There are earlier and brighter moods of the human mind, to be sure, that would ask for nothing better than to be borne on "the wings of the wind" into fields of fresh adventure; but the elements of change and decay in human belief, cause all human experience eventually to end in a sense of something wanting.

From time immemorial men have been known by their mental traits. One king is known as "the lion-hearted," another as "the wise.