Articles

WHEN Balaam the prophet replied to the messengers of Balak, king of Moab, "I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more," he expressed a vital conviction, and one we do well to ponder. In the three chapters of the book of Numbers which describe the dramatic coming together and parting of Balaam and Balak, we learn how clearly the former, who spoke of himself as "the man whose eyes are open," saw how impossible it was for him to take from or add to the word of the Almighty.

THE goal of the Christian is life eternal; his direct route, right motive. The avowed motive of Jesus was that men "might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

OUR text-book teaches that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" ( Science and Health, p. 468 ).

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.