Articles

The question of supply is one that has occupied the thoughts of mortals throughout the ages. It is associated with most human problems.

Where even two or three meet together the subject of health is almost invariably commented upon or seriously discussed, so intimately is it associated with our day to day activities, so necessary is it to our mental peace. Health is usually considered as pertaining to one's physical condition; but it is also becoming recognized by an increasing number of people as a state of conscious or unconscious well-being,—moral, mental, and physical.

The idea of refinement has for so long been associated with certain human characteristics that we are prone to regard it mainly in relation to the gentleness of manner, the inborn grace and courtesy of a person of artistic tastes and delicacy of feeling. In order, however, to gain a more enlightened comprehension of the word, it is essential to know that refinement is a quality and expression of Spirit, and can be realized only in the degree that men reflect the divine attributes.

How often people look back upon their childhood as the happiest time of their lives! Forgetting their childish woes and trials, they remember only the freedom from anxiety and responsibility, the reliance on their parents' care and protection, the long, happy days of fun and play. They long to become little children again; but how impossible it seems! Yet Jesus said to his disciples, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

We often hear speakers at the Wednesday evening testimony meetings held in Christian Science churches say that they find mere words inadequate to express fully the gratitude they feel for the benefits received from the study and practice of Christian Science. It is also true that, even if language equal to the proper expression of gratitude could be found by every such speaker, so numerous and varied are the benefits and blessings Christian Science brings to all honest students, that the time at their disposal on these occasions would certainly be insufficient for this purpose.

In Revelation. John presents to us the wonders of the kingdom of heaven.

Genuine quietness, as revealed in Christian Science, is won through courage, fidelity, purity; it is the result of spiritual watchfulness, and of instant surrender to the demands of divine Principle. Apathy, nonresistance to error, and the empty repetition of statements of truth accomplish very little.

" O make me glad for every scalding tear, For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain. " —Poems, by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

Sacred Scripture, given us for reproof and instruction, is always urging upon the followers of God the necessity of fighting. we must "fight the good fight;" fight for the faith; fight the mental battle with the false evidences of evil; but we must see that the contest is not ours, that it is not a contest of personalities, but one between Truth and supposititious evil, which surely destroys all errors, futilely and helplessly arrayed against divine Principle.

When reading the accounts of Jesus' disciples crossing the Sea of Galilee, as recorded by Matthew and John, it requires but little imagination to picture vividly that struggle in the dark against the tempestuous wind and waves, and the joy which must have come with the happy ending of the experience. Few narratives that are so briefly told give such a complete story of the struggle of mortals and of ultimate victory over material sense; and perhaps none point the way for us more simply, or hold out greater promise of reward.