Articles

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.

ON page 531 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy makes the following statement: "The human mind will sometime rise above all material and physical sense, exchanging it for spiritual perception, and exchanging human concepts for the divine consciousness.

SUCCESS is often supposed to mean the amassing of money, the increasing of profits, the piling up of the things which can be seen with the eyes or touched by the hands. The desire for, or love of, material possessions carries with it the wish to have one's wealth seen and admired by others.

CHRIST JESUS promised his disciples that every form of error could be healed by spiritual means. This was his command: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

THE Psalmist says, "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. " As one studies and analyzes this passage, it becomes evident that the word upon which the action hinges is the verb "sawest.

THE inheritance of a Christian consists of the legacy which Christ Jesus left for all; and those who are willing to take possession of this inheritance may do so. When the Master was preparing his disciples for the time when he would no longer be with them, he said: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.