Articles

ALL who have precipitated and then analyzed the sediment of that brand of materialistic philosophy which has become impregnated with fatalism, have found it really teaches that human beings are no more than choice aggregations of predestinated protoplasm, and therefore that religion can be nothing better than a solemn hoax. It would be worth while for one to map out before the mind's eye the country, with its roads and byways, into which such a view could introduce him.

THE tales that appeal most to a child are those which stir the imagination and, not being enclosed in definite lines of statement, allow a certain play of the fancy. Such stories, from their absence of detail and from their sketchy outline, will generally be found to be precisely those which admit of a wide interpretation; and, provided they are founded on some great, unchanging law of truth, the appreciation of the child for the large variety of interpretations as to conclusions, shadows forth to the adult the probability of the discovery of an equal number of metaphysical meanings.

NOT until we begin to apply Christian Science do we learn what it demands of us, and then for a time perhaps only faintly. On what conditions may men find healing and happiness? "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

WHEN the time draws near for the election of new readers in the branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, Section 6 of Article III in the Manual of The Mother Church may well be given careful study by the members. In past years it has been a moot question in some Christian Science churches whether a man or a woman should be elected to the office of first reader, the fact having been overlooked that our Leader definitely covered this point in a short article entitled "Readers in Church" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

LONG training in a literal and material interpretation of the Scriptures tends to unfit one to understand them spiritually. A hard and harsh literalness blots out the divine compassion inherent in the Bible and renders the student oblivious of its saving message.

THERE is in the British Museum in London a cast of a basalt stele, discovered in recent times among the ruins of Babylon, inscribed in ancient Babylonian characters, bearing the text of a code of laws drawn up about twenty-two hundred years before Christ, by Khammurabi, king of Babylon. This code of laws was based upon a large number of still more ancient laws and customs which had been in use for centuries.

IN Science and Health we read that "whatever blesses one blesses all" ( p. 206 ); and what a joy it is to have proof of this truth in one's own experience, to learn that under the government of divine Principle what results in the best good to one also meets the need of another.

IN Christian Science we learn that a condition of thought which seems to separate man from his Maker is indigenous to the material concept of existence and handicaps one at every turn. It makes him subservient to family traditions and associations, to inherited tendencies, to various physical weaknesses, to insufficient wealth or to undesirable abundance, to race, age, history.

THERE is something inherently good in human consciousness which craves expression. To finite sense one may appear to rejoice in iniquity, impurity, and untruth, but penetrate the mask of indifference and pretension and you will find one who is weary of his sin and failures.

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST once said to one who was bowed by sickness and sorrow, "Gain the spirit of giving, and soon you will say it is sweet to live. " "But I have no money to give away," was the sad reply.