Articles

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.

In the Scriptures we find two seemingly opposing statements: David's words to Goliath, "The battle is the Lord's," and the prophet Habakkuk's words of praise to God, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. " To harmonize these seemingly conflicting statements one must see, through the teachings of Christian Science, that God, good, divine Principle, is All, filling all space, and therefore evil in any form must of necessity be nonexistent, nothing.

The words spoken by Christ Jesus are for us today, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death;" and, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" "Believest thou this?" The grief-stricken thought of Martha must have been suddenly awakened by Jesus' startling question.