Articles

It may be said that throughout all history the ideal of the individual has been the attainment of freedom. Whether the human sense of freedom has been able to confer the benefits supposedly attaching to it is questionable; nevertheless, the desire has persisted and will persist, until the deep heart-longing of every individual shall be satisfied through finding his birthright of freedom as a child of God.

It is your meeting! How many of us are conscious that this message is being given to each attendant at the Wednesday meetings when the Reader announces that the meeting is open for "experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science" ( Church Manual, p. 122 )? Herein is the invitation to speak, and the assurance that suitable remarks will be welcomed.

Our present civilization has become known as "the power age. " The knowledge of how to utilize the great forces of heat and electricity has put immense material power in the hands of men.

The beneficent influence of right thinking, awakened through the teachings of Christian Science, is being felt in ever increasing measure throughout the world, and its vital presence is a power for good which can no longer be denied. The only remedy for the world's ills is to be found through the correct answer to Pilate's question, "What is truth?" Thus when Mrs.

A Christian Scientist needing to know which of two courses was the right one to take, sought God's guidance, praying for a definite answer. Having been a teacher of mathematics, she recalled that answers to problems are not usually printed in algebraic textbooks, and she remembered why Pupils do not need them.

True teachableness is a beautiful road which leads up a hill; it is a road of never ending discovery and reward; and those who traverse this road find it a joy all the way. There is a distinct need for teachableness concerning spiritual things in order to counteract the inertia of dogma and futile sense-satisfaction.

The establishment of our Lesson-Sermons in the form given in the Christian Science Quarterly was the result of our Leader's prayer and demonstration. A feature of these Sermons is termed "Responsive Reading," prayerful consideration of which brings deep appreciation of what the Lesson-Sermon is and what it does.

The fallacy that all things are subject to fate, that the span of life can be determined, lengthened or shortened, by chance or by an irresistible force, is yielding to the clear understanding Christian Science gives of God's law and its uninterrupted government of man and the universe. Notwithstanding the insidious nature and the apparent activity of evil, the actual truth remains that the real spiritual man and the real spiritual universe are not subject to fate or chance.

Business has sometimes been looked upon as that which is able to provide unlimited opportunities for one to become independent without an altogether righteous or even strenuous effort and from a material standpoint. But again, the same structure may be one's torment, seeming to render him dependent upon others and withholding from him the opportunity for fruitful labor.

The student of Christian Science, awakening to the immense importance of a right mental attitude in his relations with others, may well ponder the statement of Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 28, 29) , "There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.