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TO spiritualized thought the Bible is a treasure-house from which are drawn wisdom and strength. Casual readers may fail to understand its meaning, but the sincere and patient heart finds reassurance and practical help in its pages, especially where one has found access to its limitless store of true riches through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
THERE are interesting and helpful lessons for the Christian Scientist in the twenty-first and twenty-sixth chapters of Genesis. We find there recorded certain transactions by Abraham and Isaac concerning wells of water.
IN Science and Health ( p. 547 ) Mrs.
UNMISTAKABLY the work and message of Jesus of Nazareth had to do with the every-day lives of those around him. Great and good and exalted he truly was, yet when Peter's wife's mother was "sick of a fever" he went to her and healed her.
IT may not be a long journey from so-called orthodoxy to Christian Science, but it is always a radical one. To journey east the west-bound traveler must face about.
IN his epistle to the Ephesians Paul exhorts all true followers of the Master to "put on the whole armor of God," mentioning as a final requisite "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. " On page 595 of Science and Health sword is defined as "the idea of Truth; justice.
THAT for which all men are most earnestly seeking is some means or method by which they may be insured protection against calamity, sorrow, or suffering. Self-preservation is said to be the first law of nature.
IN Science and Health ( p. 276 ) Mrs.
WHEN mankind is first brought face to face with a new idea of Truth, the common mental reaction is one of either attraction or repulsion, of hope or fear as to the probable effect on one's own habits of thought by the issue involved. The neutral or indifferent zone of human consciousness lies between these extremes, one or the other of which appears in the initial steps of all mental activity as the sure sign of aroused self-interest.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Buffalo, N. Y.