Articles

Heaven , it will be readily admitted on all sides, is of universal interest. Men always have believed in the existence of heaven; they have differed widely and variously in their concepts of it, but they have, each in his own fashion, looked up and looked forward to some vision of enduring rest, peace, pleasure, or bliss.

" We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity. " Mrs.

At the early age of twelve years the boy Jesus recognized that he must be about his Father's business. This indicated that his outlook on the world was different from those contemporaries who claimed to understand stand divine law.

How often our hearts fail us as we become mesmerized by the belief that some act in the past has been a mistake which can bind all our present and future, and keep us in bondage to its material results! We consent to submit to the material conditions which so hamper us, forgetting that in Christian Science we are given the power to cure wrong conditions. When God appeared to Moses, He did not tell him to help the children of Israel endure the hardships in Egypt.

There is no human heart but yearns to know of spiritual good. The plea of the woman of Samaria, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw," has been heard down the centuries.

The vocabulary of Christian Science, as Mrs. Eddy has established it, is abundantly large and adequate.

A Comforting result obtained by one student of Christian Science is traceable to her persistent efforts to demonstrate its divine Principle in her daily thoughts. In her early life, comfort was largely identified with cessation of effort; to find a place or a period of ease,—an easy place, or a time when she could choose her own occupation and do as she pleased, rather than as compelled by circumstance,—this was her goal.

Why those who seek God have not more readily found Him has been a world-wide question. His mercy has been implored for centuries.

In the eighth chapter of Acts the martyrdom of Stephen, first of many to drink the cup of our Master, is related with brief simplicity. In the narrative, one who later changed his name, in penitence and deep humility, is introduced to Scriptural history in these words: "And Saul was consenting unto his death.

Throughout the ages, one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult lessons to impart to mankind has been the distinction between true and false theology, or the right and the wrong concept of God. The book of Job brings out forcibly this distinction between the true and the false sense of God.