Articles

IT is recorded that after Christ Jesus had fed the multitude which followed him into the desert he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost;" and they gathered up twelve baskets full. The demand "that nothing be lost" is in accordance with divine economy, for in God's kingdom nothing is ever lost; nor can there ever be any loss under divine guidance.

TRUE prosperity is spiritual. This statement may seem illogical, even visionary, to one who regards spiritual things as distinct from daily experience.

CHRIST JESUS was marvelously adept at reading thought. The Apostle John relates of him, "He knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE finds us in the wilderness of material sense. A certain amount of suffering may have preceded the appearing to us of the truth.

THE sorrow which stirs Habakkuk's heart is not a national but a great world-sorrow; and .

THE book of Habakkuk, in spite of its limited extent, presents a combination of rather remarkable literary features. It comprises both a prophecy and a psalm, each of which displays striking qualities.

IN Mary Baker Eddy's published writings, she has related or briefly stated more than a few cases in which she demonstrated or practiced her teachings for the benefit of particular persons. See Science and Health 162:16 , 184:27 , 192:32 to 31 next page, 389:28 "Miscellaneous Writings" 69:14 , 242:19 ; "Retrospection and Introspection" 15:13 to IS next page, 40:4-20 ; "Pulpit and Press" 54:28 , 69:1-9 ; Message for 1901 17:11 ; "Unity of Good" 7:6-17 ; "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" 105:7 to 12 next page.

NEVER in the history of the world has such a quantity and variety of human philosophy and science, so called, been offered to those who are hungry and searching for a satisfactory plan of living. Is there not in this an echo of Job's cry, "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!" And the answer is found in the words of Jesus, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

THAT true existence is entirely apart from matter and beyond the recognition of the physical senses is one of the fundamental teachings of the Bible. Christ Jesus spoke of this state of being as the "kingdom of God," or "kingdom of heaven.

AND he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. " Whatever vocation one may follow, the goal of success, as viewed in Christian Science, is reached only as each task is performed under divine direction and is made a step in spiritual unfoldment.