Articles

FROM time to time the Christian Science periodicals have published articles dealing with the subject of art, especially with the appeal of Christian Science to members of the dramatic profession. These articles helped the writer considerably, in that they dealt with problems of the artist's own experience; for these problems seem different from those of the social or business world, although they are in reality the same problems in a different guise.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE differs from other religious systems in that it works from a purely spiritual basis, but it is not for that reason less active or less practically operative in present human affairs. At times, however, from the law-abiding and somewhat reticent attitude which its adherents maintain, the notion gets abroad that its practice consists in a passing-by-on-the-other-side state of mind whenever political agitation presents itself.

THE writer of the book of Proverbs says, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. " The Oxford dictionary defines wisdom as the possession of "experience and knowledge together with the power of applying them critically or practically," and it affirms understanding to be the "power of apprehension;" that is, the ability to conceive or grasp ideas.

IN the Bible we read: "The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, .

THE Hon. Charles C.

TO the earnest Christian Scientist, who pauses appalled before the seemingly modern drift of ingratitude, which temporarily ignores some splendid instance of sudden and obvious healing, there should come speedy comfort and renewed patience, —patience because of the willingness of the Master to trust his finished work to his Father's approbation alone, and comfort because the witness is not a pioneer in his discouragement, nor is ingratitude a modern tendency. The Christian Scientist should be swift in remembering enough of his own past experience with the outworn and the unreal, and be slow, therefore, in his judgment of those whose conduct bears a likeness to his own discarded past.

SIGHT and hearing are faculties of Mind. To understand this clearly is a step toward human redemption.

THE deification and worship of human ancestors formed a part of the religion of the ancients. This practice is still found today in full force among many savage tribes, and in a greatly refined system among certain races of the Orient.

THE student of Christian Science, while working out the problems that confront him, sometimes meets with experiences which are like severe storms, when thought is tempest-tossed; but by steadfastly applying the Principle and fixed rules of Science, the waters are calmed and the sunshine of Truth appears. With this appearing there is always found to be some measure of darkness destroyed, and some clearer glimpse of the eternal facts of being gained.

MORTAL man has been trained through centuries of false education to look to the body for news as to his chances of well-being, ignorant of the fact that the mortal body can image forth only the conditions of the mortal thought bent anxiously upon it. The Christian Scientist learns that the springs of life are in God, divine Mind, that God alone needs to be questioned as to the laws of being, and that the answer is always good.