Articles

THE presence of God is ever with men. Throughout the whole universe He is never for one moment absent from any place, however remote, or from anyone.

THE weekly Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, is a sermon fraught with untold blessings and prosperity for the world. Mrs.

MOST of us are familiar with the many Bible passages which advise us to seek God that we may experience health and harmony, but do we often think of the passages which inform us that God is seeking us? For example, we read ( Ezek. 34: 11 ), "Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out," and again ( verse 16 ), "I will seek that which was lost.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, she did not follow the pattern of the orthodox churches of her day.

CHRISTIAN virtues are pillars of strength in an unstable world. The heart embodying Christlike qualities of thought draws close to God, receives power from above, and endurance and might from the infinite resources of Love.

MANY people are seeking to find their right place or, to put it another way, their right work—work which not only provides supply for daily human needs but is purposeful, useful, and satisfying. Christian Science teaches that each one of us, regardless of the human circumstances in which he may seem to be involved, has his own right place to fill.

THROUGHOUT the centuries teachers, poets, and writers in general have extolled mother love, but Christian Science defines God as Father-Mother, thus bringing to mankind the true understanding of mother love. The motherly qualities are vital to good Sunday School teaching.

IN Science and Health ( p. 115 ), under the marginal heading "Divine image," Mrs.

HOW many times have you said to yourself when an unusually large task seemed pressing, "I don't know where to begin"? Paul told the Athenians where to begin when he stood in the midst of Mars' Hill and looked about at the confusion of religious beliefs in their city. He saw them "wholly given to idolatry" ( Acts 17:16 ), and he spoke out to them clearly: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

WHEN we think about ourselves, what kind of man do we behold? Is he spiritual, that is, the creation of the divine Mind? Or is he material, that is, a formation of matter? Christian Science teaches us how to distinguish between the two and to acknowledge as our true selfhood the man that God, Mind, made and maintains. The book of Genesis presents two accounts, utterly opposed to each other, of the origin and nature of man.