Articles

THE position of a Christian Scientist differs from that of other persons in the respect that he is acquiring an exact knowledge of God and His laws, which may be applied to the solution of all problems. The great Teacher declared that he who was least in the kingdom of heaven, the realm of Spirit, was greater than that stanch prophet of the older school, John the Baptist.

ABOUT sixteen years after the first return of the exiles from Babylon the prophetical careers of Haggai and Zechariah began almost simultaneously. The immediate aim of these two prophets was to awaken their fellow countrymen to the necessity of erecting or completing the second temple, and in the fifth and sixth chapters of Ezra they are mentioned as having been sent by God to encourage the Jews to proceed with the work of rebuilding the temple.

ALREADY many platitudes of the war period are fading rapidly into a past which, like all of the human past, is crowded with both seeming disappointments and seeming successes. To many who are to-day examining and commenting on this recent history, it seems almost incomprehensible that so much shallow thinking should ever have been current, that catch phrases with no foundation in truth should have stimulated such excesses of zeal, and that such masses of people should have been so readily and thoroughly mesmerized by the suggestions of terror.

According to the teachings of the Bible we learn that God is infinite. When we look up into the sky on a starry night and gaze with wonderment upon countless numbers of stars and planets and think of the astronomer calculating into millions of miles of space, we begin to realize, in a degree, what is meant by the word infinite; that which has neither beginning nor end of time or space; that which is immeasurable.

Association is a term which denotes the spiritual relationship existing between God and man and is seen in the essential oneness or unity of Mind and idea. This is the truth concerning association, and any belief the human mind holds about it does not affect the facts in the least.

Accurate thinking is sure to find expression in the careful and accurate use of words, and a clear sense of the correct meaning of words is just that much of a help to accurate thinking; on the other hand, a careless use of language and an incorrect sense of the meaning of words not only indicates wrong thinking but tends to foster it. In the study and demonstration of Christian Science this correct understanding of the meaning of words extends far beyond the mere dictionary definition, although the dictionary definition, especially in its indication of root derivations and primary meanings, is often very helpful.

In the fifth chapter of the book of Daniel we read the remarkable account of the feast of Belshazzar, king of Babylon. The story is familiar to all Bible students and though told in few words presents a vivid picture of the depravity of the king and his favorites.

The original term "citizen" denotes a person endowed with certain rights, privileges, and protection, as a native or naturalized resident of a state or country. It also denotes a member of a free, self-governing people.

Of all the problems that beset mankind there is one of which it may safely be said that it confronts every one sooner or later with the necessity of making a choice between two courses. Who is there who at one time or another has not been compelled to deliberate over the respective claims of the way that seemed right but unpopular, and the way that seemed easy because other people were following it? Hardly a problem presents itself to the individual but mass influence attempts to make itself felt, and while human thinking proceeds on the lines it usually does, so long will there be the necessity for safeguarding the individual thought from external aggression so that it may be preserved in the freedom which is its right.

Christian Science is a practical religion; that is why so many business men have to-day embraced its teachings. It has often been said drat the commercial code of honor could not be made to fit in with the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.