TRUTH

“Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, 

and he will increase in learning.” –The Bible, Proverbs 9:9--

“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure 
to give you the kingdom” … This truth is Christian Science.”  

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 442, 

--Mary Baker Eddy--

“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –
 a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces – 
a movement toward a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”

--George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical, p. 215-- 

“Think truly and your thought will the world’s famine feed.”  

--Horatio Bonar--

I took the photo when in Ely/England -- what a beautiful spot!

“It was when I saw that what appears as a demand is actually the supply demanding to be recognized.”

--George Millar, CSB—

Truth Universal

God sends his teachers unto every age,

To every clime, and every race of men,

With revelations fitted to their growth

And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth

Into the selfish rule of one sole race.

Therefore, each form of worship that hath swayed

The life of man, and given it to grasp

The master-key of knowledge, reverence,

Enfolds some germs of goodness and of right;

Else never had the eager soul, which loathes

The slothful down of pampered ignorance,

Found in it even a moment's fitful rest.

The Christian Science Journal, April 1885

O teach me, Truth, to hear Thy call

And follow, though the stubborn ear

May catch but faintly, there and here,

The watchword, God is All in all.

When you and I pray let us do that which prayer reveals to us, clarifies to us, because prayer is a commitment to Truth, and Truth’s commitment to you and me.  A prophet once said, "I poured forth my soul into myself" I understand this to mean: Learn to know yourself.  Leave behind your mortal, negative, morbid, and fearful concepts of self, and then, without laboring hard and long, you’ll gain a quicker sense of who you really are, a beloved inhabitant of the vast kingdom of Mind. The Prophet Jeremiah, whose name meant, "raised up" or "appointed by Jehovah," he had a tough time because his "message made him to be hated of all men."  His persona, and perhaps his concept of God as a punishing God made his message hard and difficult to listen to for the people of Judah.  But his love for God and His people was undeniably deep.  Jeremiah said, ". . . the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,/ Before I formed [you] in the belly, I knew [you]; and before [you] camest forth out of the womb I sanctified [you], and I ordained [you] a prophet unto the nation./ Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with [you] to deliver [you], . . ./ Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth.  And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in [your] mouth./ Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what [do you see]? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree./ Then said the Lord unto me, [you] hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it" (Jer. 1:4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12). The bitterness of unjust taunt, imprisonment, and exile, did not lessen Jeremiah’s love for God, and His children. It’s he who said, "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved [you] with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn [you]" (31:3). I’m sure the call from Truth to the heart of Jeremiah was mightily comforting to him, and so should it be to you and me. I quote from Science and Health: "Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea,--the reflection of God,--has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth.  Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love" (p. 333:19).   
--Eva-Maria Hogrefe, C. S.--