Articles

WHEN Mary Magdalene hastened to the sepulcher on the day of resurrection to look for her Lord and Master, she found him not, and her heart was heavy. "Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him" were her sorrowful words to Jesus, who unexpectedly stood before her and whom she mistook for the gardener.

WE are told in the Bible that "the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. " There are a promise and a prospect in this verse which certainly merit careful consideration.

JESUS permitted neither time, place, nor circumstance to interfere with his healing work. One Sabbath day, when he was teaching in a synagogue, he observed a woman who could not straighten up.

EXPERIENCE shows that to place full trust in mere human means of caring for present or future needs is not the highest wisdom. Such trust often proves misplaced and disappointing because it is based on the false assumption that matter is dependable substance, whereas matter is limited, undependable, and substanceless and human means of acquiring its temporal benefits are,at best, conditional and uncertain.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. These beautiful and comforting words from the pen of John Greenleaf Whittier set forth his firm conviction in God's universal presence.

CHRIST JESUS once proclaimed to his hearers a most profound truth, the true meaning of which has not always been clearly understood by Christian thinkers. He said ( John 17:3 ), "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Testimonies of healing of the appetite for tobacco and alcohol are frequently given at Wednesday testimony meetings in Christian Science churches and in the Christian Science periodicals. Christian Science not only destroys false appetites; it protects one from acquiring them.

A BOOKKEEPER by making a survey of his accounts at the end of each month proves that they are well kept and in perfect balance. This survey is called "taking a trial balance.

Christian science has brought to men an infallible means of so uniting thought with the truth of spiritual being that they can demonstrate that progress is an ever-operative law of God. Christian Scientists are learning that because man is eternally the image and likeness of God, he does not advance toward a state of well-being and completeness.

The children of men wander down strange and devious ways in an effort to find happiness. Like Ponce de León, the Spanish explorer who hunted through trackless Florida wastelands for the mythical fountain of youth, so mortals explore the wastelands of materiality in search of the wellspring of joy.