Articles

It was a bleak day in winter. A Christian Scientist was returning from the home of one who was in a sense of great suffering, and her heart was filled with the desire to realize the healing power of the ever present Christ.

It is deeply significant that the opening paragraph of the chapter, Science of Being, beginning on page 268 of Science and Health, contains reference both to the thought liberation of the age of mechanical invention and to the simultaneous entrance of woman into the arena of general inquiry for a more metaphysical explanation and adjustment of the problems of existence. "Materialistic hypotheses," Mrs.

When Jesus was questioned by Pilate as to the purpose of his mission, he replied, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. " He repeatedly affirmed that he came to do the will of the Father.

A message of good cheer for the active and prospective soldier is to be found in the seventeenth chapter of I Samuel. Therein is contained an account of the power of God's law of preservation during time of war, and the truth in the narrative illumined by the light of Christian Science becomes a veritable shield for the modern warrior.

Throughout all the ages the human heart has been the receptacle for countless ideals and aspirations. In the innermost consciousness of every one there is and always has been a never ceasing desire to attain that which ever seems unattainable, to reach out for things whose approach, miragelike, is ever beyond the grasp.

It should not excite surprise that the problem of supply seems to loom large upon the horizon—and frequently in the immediate foreground also—of so many students of Christian Science. On the contrary, it would be surprising if such were not the case.

Study of the Scriptures shows that by the progressive unfoldment to us of God's commands we are called to part with all that is not Christlike, even though it be as the giving up of a right eye or a right hand or an Isaac. This is made manifest through experience and the study of Abraham's trial as recorded in the book of Genesis.

Mortal mind counterfeits the real consciousness. Every conclusion or inference it predicates is dependent upon the perceptions of the physical senses.

One of the most important things to be considered in the study and demonstration of Christian Science is the necessity for being strictly accurate or correct in the understanding of the statements contained in the Scriptures. In the study of the Bible we of today are very apt to forget that modern usage has in many instances changed the meaning of the words from the sense in which they were employed at the time when the King James version was published.

No one can long be a student of Christian Science without becoming impressed with the necessity of following Paul's admonition: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. " The old thought habits along all lines when brought before the bar of Truth begin to undergo a rigid cross-examination.