Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.
Editorials
Power is indispensable to all of us. We do not make it, but it is perpetually active in us, and for us.
Many readers of these lines have without doubt had that rare privilege of singing carols at the Royal Albert Hall in London around the Yuletide. They have thrilled to that triumphant burst of song when from the great choir of hundreds of voices has poured forth Tennyson's New Year's message: Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
An early Christian in Ireland is credited with this lovely prayer: "Christ is in the eye that sees me. Christ is in the ear that hears me.
In the seventeenth chapter of John we learn what was in the thought of Jesus as he prayed for his disciples. The Christ-mission of revealing Truth to the world, he was now entrusting to them.
" It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old. The angels, bending near the earth, Their wondrous story told Of peace on earth, good will to men, From heaven's all-gracious King; The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.
" A man ," writes Emerson, "is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. " The oneness of Life precludes unrelated being.
No government that is not based upon divine law, upon love for God and man. can endure.
In 1621, after their first harvest in the new land, the sturdy. God fearing Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, appointed a day of thanksgiving to the Giver of all good.
Those material possessions that JL men deem of greatest value, which they seek and cling to, despite loss and disillusionment, continue to influence and sometimes wholly absorb their lives. To the child, his treasures—so transitory, so fiercely held, so quickly outgrown—are, while they last, his primary concern, and to him their loss or dissolution spells tragedy.
The word "man" is used in Christian Science in an individual and a collective, or generic, sense. When used in an individual sense, it refers to a single man.