Articles

Speaking of the Christ he so marvelously represented, Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. " In this far-reaching declaration the Master evidently was not referring to mortal existence and intelligence, averred to emanate from matter.

A Christian Scientist who was going through a period of trial woke in the night with a sense of resuming a burden of worry, when, in sweet, quiet admonition, these words came to her troubled thought: "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. " Accepting the heavenly invitation, she began to think in terms of praise and thanksgiving, and was soon far up the heights of spiritual meditation, above the dark valley of depression where she had lingered so unnecessarily and so long.

The constant desire and hope of the human race is for release of some kind. Many individuals are hoping for release from sin and sickness, from fear and worry, or from some unwholesome habit.

One does not make marked progress in a business, art, or profession without the conviction that the work in which he is engaged is of positive value. One also needs the conviction that it is necessary to understand his subject, strive steadily to deepen his knowledge of it, and work with genuine sincerity of purpose according to rules underlying it.

IT is debated whether Malachi is a personal name, or merely official ("my messenger"), or used symbolically.

MRS. EDDY'S discovery of Christian Science sprang from experiences that extended through many years.

THE historical situation reflected in this prophecy is a further development of what has been seen in the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah. The exile is too much a thing of the past to leave any traces.

IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 392 ), under the marginal heading "Guarding the door," Mrs.

VERY early after one has begun to study Christian Science one learns that treatment is an entirely mental process, although it is in no way the control of one human mind by another, mental manipulation, or mental suggestion. Treatment is prayer, prayer in its true sense.

ONE need not investigate Christian Science to any considerable extent to learn something of its message of dominion and activity. "Meet every adverse circumstance as its master," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.