Articles

Only through the understanding and right practice of Christianity can one finally enter into "the secret place of the most High," where no enemy can intrude to assail his peace. All mortals sigh for peace, yet it is vain to seek peace so long as one believes in the reality and power and presence of evil.

I and my Father are one. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God. And as I cannot in my own strength attain this measure of wisdom and power, I make humble and firm resolve to seek all these things from my heavenly Father.

An eminent English author does full justice to his subject when he refers to prejudice as "decision neither founded upon nor consistent with reason," that it is "the error of ignorance, weakness, or idleness;" "the enemy of all truth, knowledge, and improvement. " Nowhere has human prejudice played a more conspicuous part in the consciousness of mankind than in the religious world.

The first real, earnest, religious faith that shall arise upon the ruins of the old worn-out creeds, will transform the whole of our actual social organization, because every strong and earnest faith tends to apply itself to every branch of human activity; because in every epoch of its existence the earth has ever tended to conform itself to the heaven in which it then believed; and because the whole history of humanity is but the repetition—in form and degree varying according to the diversity of the times—of the words of the Dominical Christian Prayer: "Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. " Let these words—better understood and better applied than in the past—be the utterance of your faith, your prayer, O my brother! Repeat them and strive to fulfil them.

Public opinion is, in nine cases out of ten, public folly and impertinence. We are slaves to one another.

A very beautiful characterization of the mission of John the Baptist was given by his father, Zacharias, who is recorded in Luke's Gospel as prophesying, "And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways: to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins.

The thought of Christians in general respecting the use of material remedies in sickness is that they are the only available means for combating disease, and that their use is therefore not out of keeping with Christian conduct. Some have gone so far as to say that materia medica is the legitimate successor of Jesus' healing method, notwithstanding that material means had already been in use for two thousand years before Jesus appeared, and were doubtless as much sought after and relied upon then as now.

Bad Sachsa am Harz, Hermannklause, Deutschland, November 24, 1905. Mrs.

In the Christmas Section of the New York World of December 10, there appeared a symposium entitled, "The Significance of Christmas. Notable Comments by Prominent Representatives of Different Creeds," to which Rev.