Articles

Creation is an eternal and continuous act, an act without beginning or end.

ST. PAUL thus characterized his own preaching: "We speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

THE unbelief which stands in the way of spiritual progress is not so much disbelief of the truth which has been presented, as it is the occupation of the mind with beliefs which are contrary to the truth. Since the mind is thus preoccupied, it has no hospitality for the truth.

TRUTH is radical, authoritative, absolute. It proceeds from eternal, divine Principle.

TWO friends had met and were talking with each other, To one the day seemed gloomy and the air uninviting; the melody of the birds brought him no music. To the other the bird songs were enchanting, the flowers were a delight, and the little brook made sweet melody as it ran by the garden.

IT is interesting to acquaint ourselves with the life and thought of those ancient worthies who, as our Leader says, "caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ" (Science and Health, p. 333), and among these none perhaps is more deserving of recognition and honor as a prophet than the great Swedish thinker, Kristoffer Jacob Bostrom, who was born in 1797, became teacher to the sons of King Oscar I.

IT is recorded in the fifth chapter of Mark's Gospel that Jesus on one occasion approached a man possessed of "an unclean spirit. " And the man, perceiving Jesus afar off, ran and worshiped him.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is a most significant name for a body of religious teaching. No mental jugglery is possible with the word "science.

" WHOM do men say that I the Son of man am?" is perhaps the most pregnant question ever propounded to a human being, and the Master evidently so regarded it. There is something to be gained by considering the exact structure of the question.

CAN evil be overcome with evil? Is it right to seek to overcome evil with evil? Is one ever justified in fighting the devil (evil) with his own weapons? Human beings seem to be confronted frequently by these questions, and while sometimes they recognize the true nature of the questions which they face, sometimes they do not. We would know better how to deal with such questions, if we understood them, and our ignorance certainly increases the seriousness of our problem.