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Among the various other contributions to the Mother Church were ten "contribution boxes," or rather baskets. They are made of bamboo cane and are very light; the handle is so constructed that it slides back and forth in a groove and may be lengthened or shortened as occasion requires.
THE word Heaven has, to the Christian Scientist, a new meaning; so Home means to us more a condition of mind, than a place. We are at Home, now, when we know that "In Him, we live, move and have our being;" when we come into a full realization of this, we shall be in Heaven.
I WAS working out a problem in Christian Science and I thought of this Scriptural passage: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. " Do we seek to be clean first:' When a sense of pain makes its claim do we as faithfully seek to rid ourselves of the cause of that pain as the pain itself? We do wish to be pure I trust, but is the wish first? We all desire to demonstrate Truth, but do we love to be cleansed so that we can successfully demonstrate? Do we desire Love and its patient work, the humility it brings, the self-sacrifice, the faithful endurance, and the labor, or do we work for the sense of material good it brings? Even when we go back of suffering for the wrongful thought, do we do it to get relief, or is it for the unselfish purpose of getting rid of one more falsity of self? If we seek both, which most? Lately a sense of awakening has come to me of that which has kept us from God, and its repulsiveness is such that I have felt that suffering is the least of our trials.
THE Thirteenth chapter of Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians has been called the "Iliad of the Epistles," and well might it be so called. It is a sublime panegyric on love—love, "that worketh no ill to his neighbor—love that vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; "the love that we as Christian Scientists should manifest toward each other and to the world, even to those who are not of our "household of faith," for are we not all brethren? Even so then, should we cherish this thought of brotherly love to all, whether bond or freeman.
We gladly publish the following well-deserved tribute to the Christian Science Board of Directors. It is always gratifying to know that faithful and disinterested labor in behalf of our cause is appreciated.
In response to many requests therefor we herewith republish the article of Mr. John C.
My Beloved Students :— I cannot conscientiously lend my counsel to direct your action on receiving or dismissing candidates. To do this I should need to be with you.
THE sword is the belief that we must cut down our enemies to save ourselves; that we must rob our neighbors to insure our own plenty; that we must change our surroundings to be happy. This belief and the practice prompted by it betrays our lack of trust in God as the only power, protection and supply, and causes us to forfeit the divine aid.