Articles

" For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

" Blessed are they that come up through great tribulations;" that is, if they come up, and do not bend or sink down under them. All the promises are to those who overcome—who overcome evil with Good.

"How did you happen to become a Christian Scientist?" This question has been so often propounded to me, and I myself have been so helped and strengthened by the experiences of others, that I am led to give, through the columns of our Journal, something of my own experience in coming into this beautiful Truth; trusting that it may be, to some in need, "the word in season. " Educated (religiously) in the Methodist church, of which my mother was for many years a member, I early endeavored to find there the spiritual rest and peace for which I longed.

Brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath rehearsed how first God did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After these things I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from the beginning of the world.

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us. Acts xvii.

Thy following demonstrations are in line with the thought suggested by your statement in Science and Health, page 473, fifty eighth edition: "If the Science of Life were understood, it would be found that the senses of Mind are never lost, and that matter has no sensation. Then the human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster's claw,—not with an artificial limb, but with the genuine one.

These mighty words, rolling down the ages, and gathering weight in human consciousness from the accumulative agreement of man's highest ideal of justice and Divine impartiality, have manifested themselves in the phenomena of thrones of kings o'erturned, empires dissolved, personal aggrandizement and despotism laid low, and young Republics springing up in all continents of the known world. Governments have changed their form and force under the mellowing influence of the Christ-spirit, and are still changing, still struggling to demonstrate the ideal of the prayer,—"thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven," first voiced beside the Galilean Sea, nineteen hundred years ago, and since repeated by millions of fervent, faithful lips.

A SPIRITUAL PRISM Have you ever held a crystal prism in the sunlight, and watched the sunbeams glint through it in myriad hues and shadows? One brilliant gleam chases another, until gathered into a harmony of beautiful colors and attractive rays of atmospheric light. Then turn the crystal about, and as you change its position, brighter, more beautiful rays flash out from it, reminding one of gleams of sunshine across a summer sea.

In looking over the back volumes of our Journal, one is reminded of commencement and anniversary orations and essays delivered by "callow youths" and "sweet girl graduates," who descant learnedly upon themes that are puzzling the brains of many of their white haired hearers. A few years later in life, if called upon for an article for publication or to be read to some literary society, how different would be the subject selected.

Not long ago I was present in the studio of a painter, and became very much interested in the subject; use, and mission of backgrounds. The painter showed me, among other pictures, some partially executed ones upon which he was at work.