Articles

Many writers have tried, both by argument and ridicule, to oppose the correctness of Christian Science in its claim that sin, disease, and death are human delusions. I have never known a critic of Christian Science to use the word "delusion" in the same sense that the Christian Scientist does, nor indeed in its true etymological sense.

We have not a notion what an amount of waste of power there has been in our lives; we never measured out the odd corners and the undrained bits, and it never occurred to us what good fruit might be grown in our straggling hedgerows, nor how the shade of our trees has been keeping the sun from the scanty crops. And so, season by season, we shall be sometimes not a little startled, yet always very glad, as we find that bit by bit the Master shows how much more may be made of our ground, how much more He is able to make of it than we did; and we shall be willing to work under Him and do exactly what He points out, even if it comes to cutting down a shady tree or clearing out a ditch full of pretty weeds and wild-flowers.

In the endeavor to express our mental concepts there is often a keen sense of the inadequacy of speech fully to define them. Nevertheless, this does not justify us in manifesting a poverty of expression, or in using that which is ambiguous, obscure, or erroneous.

In his endeavor to impart to his disciples some conception of those spiritual truths which were to him the eternal realities of being, and which he was able to demonstrate in the healing of sickness and sin, the Master made use of similitudes and parables; and it is said that "without a parable spake he not unto them. " That these parables have been misunderstood and misinterpreted, in some instances teaching the very opposite of that which they were intended to teach, is evidenced by the radical changes that have been made from time to time in the various declarations of faith set forth by the different religious denominations in this and other lands.

No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till to-morrow. It is only when they are behind us and done, that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant.

Human ambitions, widely variant and diverse as they are in kind and degree, are yet easily reduced to common terms. Their least common denominator is clearly to be found in the thought of self-assertion or self-expression.

The following letters show true appreciation of the new By-laws relating to the Sunday School, and our Leader's deep interest in the spiritual welfare of the children as well as her estimate of faithfulness in the Sunday School workers. Boston, Mass.

The following telegram expressive of love and loyalty was recently received by our Leader. New York, November 4, 1904.

The second annual meeting of The General Association of Teachers in the United States was held at Chicago, October 24 and 25, and was largely attended by members from practically every state in the Union. The proceedings were of great benefit to the members, and unity and harmony prevailed.

"The Lord hath sworn and he will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek. " This Melchisedek is mentioned in the holy Scriptures as a priest of the Most High God, not consecrated by any unction prepared of any material substance, and not even succeeding to the priesthood of the Jews, by any descent of lineage.