The Christian Science Journal (Volume 13) - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: who desire to follow. Was the poet Bryant not describing this Woman when he wrote: "She met the hosts of Sorrow with a look That altered not beneath the frown they wore, And soon the lowering brood were tamed and took Meekly, her gentle rule, and frowned no more. Her soft hand put aside assaults of wrath, And calmly broke in twain The fiery shafts of pain, And rent the nets of passion from her path, By that victorious hand despair was slain: With love she vanquished hate, and overcame Evil with good, in her great Master's name." LIFE HID WITH CHRIST. W. 8. H. ROBINSON. THE experience of every stndent of Truth is marked from time to time by periods of illumination, of expanded views and larger comprehension of the heights and depths of meaning inclnded in such statements as St Paul addressed to the Colossians, Chap. 3: 3. Awe at the boundless possibilities, humility at our small demonstration of them, joyful courage at their certainty, and absorbing desire to "prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God" may well occupy our thoughts as we try to take in the full meaning of the words. But it is not as of possibilities that Paul writes, but as of accomplished facts: ?"Ye are dead, and your'life is hid with Christ in God." How false belief and unbelief have obscured the Word until Christian Science revealed and reinforced it! With the given proof of our relationship to Christ and God, is laid upon us the necessity of walking worthy of it, but the more or less frequent but temporary longing for good, common to mankind is very far from that condition in which desire to have, manifest, and impart good is the ruling motive in life, nothing short of which is being hid with Christ. To the beginner, the requirements of Truth seem a rigid law, but ...