Articles

IN all human history there have been no more wonderful occasions than the gatherings in the various sections of Palestine of the disciples and the multitudes who came to hear the Master deliver his teachings, which were the basis for Christianity. Sometimes on these occasions the great Nazarene was seated on high ground; at other times he spoke from a boat on the lakeside, or in the fields and by the waysides.

" FREQUENTLY one hears the assertion that there are numerous ways which lead to the kingdom of heaven. To the travel-worn sufferer who through many long years has been trying first one way and then another to attain the peace, health, and harmony which he expects to find in the heavenly kingdom, and because of failure has grown discouraged almost to the point of despair, it must come as a relief to hear that, after all, there is only one way leading to the long-sought goal.

HUMAN life is as a school in which all are learning the lessons of Love, some faster, some slower. Every school has its headmaster; and multitudes are learning that the headmaster and chief instructor in life's school is really the Christ, defined by Mrs.

IN an age when corruption seems to be much in evidence, when not only commercial and political activities but even home and church relations seem to be affected by it, how hope-inspiring are the words of Paul, "This corruptible must put on incorruption"! A dictionary defines "corruptible" as, "subject to decay. " It is evident that all material things are "subject to decay," and that if mankind is ever to realize its innate yearning for permanent peace, unvarying health and happiness, immutable love, and abiding wealth, the quest must no longer be made in the realm of fading, fleeting matter, or for a material self which testifies only of mutation.

THE word "bread" had an extensive meaning among the Hebrews, for the reason that bread not only had an economic value as food and a social usage expressed in hospitality, but was symbolical, also, of many sacred offices and prophetic utterances. Early Biblical records show that before the patriarchal age bread, because of the labor involved in producing it, was fraught with the impressions of toil, fear, and misunderstanding.

ON page 324 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes, "Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear,—this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony. " In our endeavor to leave "false landmarks," we must determine their seeming origin and nature, and acquaint ourselves with the right method of destroying them.

RESPONSIVENESS to divine direction is meekness. Against the background of environment as delineated by physical sense, true meekness may appear startling, even dramatic.

AS in climbing a ladder we go up one step at a time, so in progressing Godward we go upward step by step. What are the steps which lead to the divine heights? In the Beatitudes, Christ Jesus points out some of them, and shows that as they are taken they result in blessings; indeed, he begins each statement with a benediction, and ends each with a special promise.

DURING his three years' ministry Christ Jesus not only expressed the tenderest compassion for the disciples while he was with them, but he also left a wonderful promise which would comfort them and meet the human need when he was no longer in their midst. This promise is recorded in the fourteenth chapter of John, and reads as follows: "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

On  page 80 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "There are no greater miracles known to earth than perfection and an unbroken friendship. " "Perfection and an unbroken friendship"! How wondrously significant the association of those qualities! How it sets us to thinking, and causes us to dig deep down under the surface of things! Truly, the words contain worlds of meaning, and are boundless in their inspiration; for these qualities reflect the fundamental facts of being and the glories of divine Love; and, demonstrated, they are indeed miracles.