Articles

Mankind have always sought various means for safety. Many have looked wholly to matter for it; others have found it in God's gracious metaphysics.

One who owns a store for selling goods is not satisfied to stock his shelves well and just let them stay that way. His prosperity depends on a good turnover; otherwise there is no profit.

Christ Jesus knew how to love his enemies; moreover, he knew that the peace for which humanity yearns must come through the individual's daily effort to overcome enmity wherever it is encountered. He was the most successful peacemaker the world has ever known, and he did not bring peace through appeasing evil; rather did he destroy evil through his reflection of divine Love.

World upheavals today among nations impel the conclusion that extreme nationalism must be abandoned before the world can experience peace. It is becoming more and more apparent that in the narrowest sense nationalism is synonymous with selfishness, pride, and hate.

Christian Science, by revealing man as the reflection of God, thus makes known a most important fact of divine metaphysics. The word reflection means the exact image or likeness of anything mirrored.

"To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme," wrote Herman Melville. This might be paraphrased to read, "To live a mighty life, you must choose a mighty theme.

Christian Science is revealing to human consciousness the fact that good is ever present and illimitable. Thus it is opening to all mankind the way out of limitation.

The writer who said, "Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish," turned a neat counterphrase on a well-known saying, but he did so at the expense of a truism, a truism which has been expressed endlessly, but never more powerfully than in Paul's "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever" ( Hebr. 13:8 ).

Has not the world today as never before come to regard efficient organization as its greatest need, almost its very lifeblood? Governments strive to prepare for coming events, big business endeavors to make its organization foolproof, and in domestic life a good organizer is a boon to the home. But can it be said that humanity is satisfied with the progress made? Is it not becoming daily more apprehensive as to where modern methods are leading mankind? Some methods of organization would press upon the so-called human mind systems of regimentation where individuality and initiative have less and less opportunity for expression.

" Beloved , now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" ( I John 3:2 ). Think of the import of this glorious statement that not yesterday, tomorrow, or sometime in the future, or after so-called death, but right now are we the sons of God.