Retrospection and Introspection
Foundation Work
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| 1 | The loss of material objects of affection sunders the |
| dominant ties of earth and points to heaven. Nothing | |
| 3 | can compete with Christian Science, and its demonstra- |
| tion, in showing this solemn certainty in growing freedom | |
| and vindicating "the ways of God" to man. The abso- | |
| 6 | lute proof and self-evident propositions of Truth are im- |
| measurably paramount to rubric and dogma in proving | |
| the Christ. | |
| 9 | From my very childhood I was impelled, by a hunger |
| and thirst after divine things,--a desire for something | |
| higher and better than matter, and apart from it,--to | |
| 12 | seek diligently for the knowledge of God as the one great |
| and ever-present relief from human woe. The first spon- | |
| taneous motion of Truth and Love, acting through Chris- | |
| 15 | tian Science on my roused consciousness, banished at once |
| and forever the fundamental error of faith in things ma- | |
| terial; for this trust is the unseen sin, the unknown foe,-- | |
| 18 | the heart's untamed desire which breaketh the divine com- |
| mandments. As says St. James: "Whosoever shall keep | |
| the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty | |
| 21 | of all." |
| Into mortal mind's material obliquity I gazed, and stood | |
| abashed. Blanched was the cheek of pride. My heart | |
| 24 | bent low before the omnipotence of Spirit, and a tint of |
| humility, soft as the heart of a moonbeam, mantled the | |
| earth. Bethlehem and Bethany, Gethsemane and Calvary, | |
| 27 | spoke to my chastened sense as by the tearful lips of a |
| babe. Frozen fountains were unsealed. Erudite systems | |
| of philosophy and religion melted, for Love unveiled the | |
| 30 | healing promise and potency of a present spiritual afflatus. |
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