Articles

During the Apostle Paul's residence at Corinth, news reached him which disturbed for a time the continuance of his preaching ministry in that city. The bearer of these tidings was Timothy, who arrived from Macedonia in or about the year 51 a.

Jesus regarded his works as the best evidence of the truthfulness of his claim to his divine mission. The works of Jesus are as important as his words, and both must be spiritually understood in order that there may be healing through Mind.

One hears much these days regarding enlistment and service, and rightly so, because every good cause, if it is to prosper, must have enthusiastic and conscientious enlisters. There is none more alert as to what constitutes true enlistment and consequent service thereunder than the student of Christian Science.

That ringing declaration by Paul that "we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ," states a demonstrable fact. When making this emphatic affirmation, Paul must have realized that it was then, and always would be, capable of proof.

That the truth, when known, spontaneously destroys a lie is a generally accepted fact. There is nothing mysterious about the direct and irresistible action of the truth; it is simply impossible for a lie about something to exist in the presence of the truth about that something.

Probably at no time in human history have so many hearts been crying out in despair for home. There are little children, young men and young women, mothers and fathers, of every nationality, echoing the cry for home.

The awakening statement, "Thou art loosed from thine infirmity," was made nearly two thousand years ago by Christ Jesus, to a woman who for eighteen years had been "bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. " The record continues, "And immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

Man eternally dwells in Mind. He is inseparable from his creator, divine Love, from Truth, forever expressing Life.

The Sunday school of a Christian Science church is a necessary department in the church activities. Out of the Sunday school should come a goodly portion of the church membership.

It is the desire of every right-thinking person to meet the adverse conditions of human experience with dignity, calmness, and fortitude; to withstand arguments of loss and defeat with hope and courage, and to face danger fearlessly. Such fortitude under conditions for which at the time no remedy has appeared is certainly commendable and is rightly honored wherever it is encountered.