Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . of the Bible and the Divinity ofChrist. It may also help them to understandone great reason for the astonishing growthof Christian Science during the last twodecades. CHAPTEE II THE MASTER NOTE IN THE MESSAGE OF CHRIS-TIAN SCIENCE Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs. Voices are crying from the dust of Tyre,From Baalbec and the stones of Babylon—We raised our pillars upon Self-Desire, And perished from the large gaze of the sun. Eternity was on the pyramid, And immortality on Greece and Rome;But in them all th
Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . of the Bible and the Divinity ofChrist. It may also help them to understandone great reason for the astonishing growthof Christian Science during the last twodecades. CHAPTEE II THE MASTER NOTE IN THE MESSAGE OF CHRIS-TIAN SCIENCE Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs. Voices are crying from the dust of Tyre,From Baalbec and the stones of Babylon—We raised our pillars upon Self-Desire, And perished from the large gaze of the sun. Eternity was on the pyramid, And immortality on Greece and Rome;But in them all the ancient Traitor hid,And so they tottered like unstable foam. No house can stand, no kingdom can endure,Built on the crumbling rock of Self-Desire. —Edwin Markham. O THE philosophical student ofhistory, no fact is more obviousthan that in proportion as a civil-ization, a people or a nation isdominated by moral idealism—by thevision that gives to life a living faith, itwill rise, advance and become inherentlygreat. On the other hand, in proportion as 29. 30 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE the eternal moral verities fade before interestin and a passion for the fleeting things ofsense, a civilization or people declines, al-though frequently to the physical eye of thecasual observer the stricken victim of ma-terialism or sense domination appears to beentering on a period of unexampled glory,power and greatness, just as one ignorant ofnatures phenomena might easily imagine theautumnal burst of ephemeral splendor to be amanifestation of life and health. Moral idealism nourishes the soul upon theeternal spiritual verities. It weaves into theweb and woof of life honor, integrity ofthought and purpose, a passion for truth, andan ever-broadening love. In a word, itspeaks to the children of men, awakeningthem from their absorption in fleeting senseperceptions to a realization of the eternalspiritual verities, Truth, Beauty and Good-ness, and thus brings them en rapport withthe All-Life and its
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