When we consider the wealth of love in treasures of Truth that daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly is poured into our hearts and homes, healing the human mind of its sickness and sin, its sorrow and shame, sensuality and selfishness, its vanity and vainglory, rebuking, exhorting, counseling, comforting, alight with love,—we are beggared for words with which to express our appreciation of the Christian Science publications. The periodicals may be likened to "streams of love" (Hymnal, p. 89), and does not the Publishing House remind us of that Scripture, "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High;" and is it not the blessed privilege of each one of us to "make channels for the streams of love, where they may broadly run," by subscribing for the periodicals?
The statements of Truth which lift thought above the sordidness of earth cannot be learned or appreciated in the mental realm where values are estimated in terms of dollars and cents. Often when thought has thus been uplifted through the study of an article in one of our periodicals, the reader is heard to say, "That article is worth the year's subscription price." What an absurd statement! Can a monetary value be placed on that which lifts man's thought to God and makes His nearness a felt fact? Sometimes one paragraph will give such a spiritual illumination that never again can he who reads stand in just the place where he stood before its message came to him. These periods of ascension are without measure in terms of sense, and only he who is seeking the kingdom of heaven first, rightly values them. To such a one the cost of all the periodicals is negligible.
The writer's experience with Der Herold der Christian Science has been so gratifying that she desires to give it to those who do not see the necessity of subscribing for a paper they cannot read. Our Leader tells us in Science and Health (p. 206), "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply," and who has not learned that obedience to by-laws brings its own reward, and that if we make "channels for the streams of love," love is ready to flow into them. One of these streams is Der Herold, but unless we make it a channel by subscribing for it, we miss so much of love, robbing ourselves and those to whom we may give again this light bearer. The writer cannot read German. This seemed to her to be a good excuse for not subscribing for Der Herold. She sometimes said, by way of excuse, that she never had a German patient, which was only another subterfuge without a reason for its use. We in Christian Science know that thoughts are things which invite or repel as the case may be; in other words, which bring forth after their kind. The following incident proves this to be true. The first copy of Der Herold received, reminded her of a German lady who was investigating Christian Science, so the copy was sent to this lady. The second copy followed the first and then the lady came to her and said with a joyful light in her eyes: "There is an article in that Herold that explains Christian Science so I understand it for the first time. I want to keep that copy. It is so good." She spoke so eagerly and her face was so joyous that the writer knew that she had had a glimpse of the Christ, so she assured her that she might keep it and rejoiced to know that a blessing had come to another, through her obedience.
