Articles

THE Nazarene's advent into the presence of humanity was heralded by angelic announcement of "good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people," heavenly voices singing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. " And it is wondrously beautiful to note how these words were echoed by the multitudes as they strewed palms before him on his entry into Jerusalem toward the close of his ministry.

OUR revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in an inspired acknowledgment to the Churches of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, for their generous gift toward the building of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Concord, New Hampshire, asks this vital question ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 164 ): "What is this something, this phoenix fire, this pillar by day, kindling, guiding, and guarding your way?" And in her great wisdom she answers, "It is unity , the bond of perfectness, the thousandfold expansion that will engirdle the world,— unity, which unfolds the thought most within us into the greater and better, the sum of all reality and good.

IN the fifth chapter of II Chronicles is recorded a proof of the allness of God, of the light which annihilates even the supposition of darkness, or error. The glory of God was made visible; and, surely, it is to-day—here and now—the privilege of each individual so to realize the ever-presence of God that the beauty and harmony of Life as Spirit are made manifest.

JESUS said: "He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life.

EVERY Christian Scientist desires to be free from erroneous influences. None intentionally wish to yield to, or come under, the domination of any influence which would produce sickness, sin, sorrow, poverty, or death.

THE earnest student of Christian Science, desiring spiritual progress above all else, soon discovers that he advances in proportion as he learns to love. The ever growing concept of God as divine Love which he gains through the study and practice of Christian Science, gradually permeates his consciousness and transforms his whole outlook on life.

ON page 242 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, —self-will, self-justification, and self-love.

DEMONSTRATION is a word of such frequent occurrence with Christian Scientists that they may fall into the error of using it lightly. It is fraught with deep significance, conveying the essential meaning of our work in divine metaphysics, namely, the proof of the correctness of our understanding of God and man.

IN " Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1) Mary Baker Eddy answers the question, "How would you define Christian Science?" as follows: "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

IT would seem that the student of Christian Science, in his endeavor to understand the Christ-idea, has first to look beyond the personal Jesus of Nazareth to the God-presence which Jesus so fully expressed. He must distinguish between the son of Mary and the Christ, Truth, which possessed the Master as sunlight floods through a window-pane.