Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Chapter 1: Prayer
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| 1 | rializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps | |
| him from demonstrating his power over error. | ||
| 3 | Sorrow for wrong-doing is but one step towards reform | |
| and the very easiest step. The next and great step re- | ||
| quired by wisdom is the test of our sincerity, | Sorrow and | |
| 6 | --namely, reformation. To this end we are | |
| placed under the stress of circumstances. Temptation | ||
| bids us repeat the offence, and woe comes in return for | ||
| 9 | what is done. So it will ever be, till we learn that there | |
| is no discount in the law of justice and that we must pay | ||
| "the uttermost farthing." The measure ye mete "shall | ||
| 12 | be measured to you again," and it will be full "and run- | |
| ning over." | ||
| Saints and sinners get their full award, but not always | ||
| 15 | in this world. The followers of Christ drank his cup. | |
| Ingratitude and persecution filled it to the brim; but God | ||
| pours the riches of His love into the understanding and | ||
| 18 | affections, giving us strength according to our day. Sin- | |
| ners flourish "like a green bay tree;" but, looking farther, | ||
| the Psalmist could see their end,--the destruction of sin | ||
| 21 | through suffering. | |
| Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. | ||
| Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven | ||
| 24 | only as it is destroyed by Christ,--Truth and | Cancellation |
| Life. If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is | ||
| cancelled, and that man is made better merely by praying, | ||
| 27 | prayer is an evil. He grows worse who continues in sin | |
| because he fancies himself forgiven. | ||
| An apostle says that the Son of God [Christ] came to | ||
| 30 | "destroy the works of the devil." We should | Diabolism |
| follow our divine Exemplar, and seek the de- | ||
| struction of all evil works, error and disease included. |
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