Articles

It is recorded in Luke's Gospel that Jesus once said to his disciples, "I am among you as he that serveth. " Can a member of the Christian Science church find a better motive than that—"as he that serveth"? And the Christian Scientist needs constantly to demonstrate these words of our Master in his organization work.

Every Christian and especially the student of Christian Science finds a profitable experience as the Christmas season rolls around each year, in contemplating the deep significance of the event which it commemorates. Such a review, of necessity, deals for the most part with the life and mission of Jesus the Christ.

THUS came Saul into Damascus;—not as he had expected, to triumph in an enterprise on which his soul was set, to brave all difficulties and dangers, to enter into houses and carry off prisoners to Jerusalem; —but he passed himself like a prisoner beneath the gateway: and through the colonnades of the street called "Straight," where he saw not the crowd of those who gazed on him, he was led by the hands of others, trembling and helpless, to the house of Judas, his dark and solitary lodging. Three days the blindness continued.

WHILE miraculous in the means that effected it, Paul's conversion was no act of violence. There was an inward preparation for the revelation of Jesus, which brought to its issue a long struggle in the nature of Saul, and opened the door of escape from a moral situation that had become miserable beyond endurance to the proud and strict young Pharisee.

IN human relationships it is indeed a delightful and joyous experience when, some estrangement and misunderstanding at an end, one enters once again into full and heartfelt agreement with another from whom he had seemed to be separated. "The middle wall of partition" is broken down, and there comes to the reunited ones a warm and loving sense of being at-one— in exact agreement once again.

A STUDENT of Christian Science spent many vacation hours near a small inland lake, whose placid beauty served to illustrate some helpful lessons. During the summer, this quiet lake, nestling among wooded northern hills, usually mirrors the graceful white-stemmed birches and the tender green of the willow trees, with their background of dark pines.

THE human exercise of reason may be correct or incorrect, depending upon individual viewpoint, experience, or the bias of education. That which to one may seem reasonable and sound, may to another seem unreasonable and unsound.

IN Matthew we read the words of Christ Jesus, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. " What an invitation ! What a call to each individual to awaken from the material sense dream, and look understandingly to our Father-Mother God, who is Love! In the spiritual realm, man is always in the presence of God, at-one with Him, safe and secure above the mist and confusion of materiality.

THE real man's consciousness is the expression of the one perfect Mind, God. His ability to be spiritually active is therefore a reflected, not a self-acquired, faculty.

THE understanding that there is only one Soul, the infinite God, and that the Soul of man and the universe never is contained in any material form, is the basis of health. The belief that there are so-called human souls or minds dwelling temporarily in physical bodies, which are thought to give to such bodies life and action, is a mistake and is the source of ill health.