Articles

ONE of the strongest longings of the human race is the deep desire to know. Job said, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!'' To the child knowledge seems an attainable thing, its acquirement the natural consequence of the grown-up state; he supposes that he will grow into knowledge after the same inevitable manner that he will grow into manhood.

THERE is a something in the heart of mankind which ever rebels against limitation. There is nothing one so loves to do as to leap over or trample down barriers, to break laws of limitation.

IT is as true today as it was twenty centuries ago, that "the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much," for Christian Science is proving daily that such prayer is potent to heal the sick and to reform the evil-minded. The secret and subtle purposes of evil never permeate the atmosphere of true prayer, which is in no way associated with evil or occultism.

One of the unjust things said of Christian Scientists is that they are a prayerless people. This arises in part, doubtless, from the differing conceptions of what prayer really is.

THE one all-absorbing statement in history, that the gift of spiritual healing was at a certain period lost to mankind, gives its restoration among us today all the more significance. Our historians of the past have not interested themselves overmuch with this particular subject, hence the writer of the future will have a story all the more absorbing to relate.

Viewed from the outside, one of the seemingly hard teachings of Christian Science is that respecting love. Until we begin to have an understanding of the height and depth and breadth of universal Love, it seems to us cold and abstract to say that there is but one Love for all mankind.

But whence comes this disgust of life? We answer, From the comparative absence of life. No man feels it who feels the abounding reality of spiritual existence glowing within him.

FEW if any of the characters in sacred history had a more varied career than he who is first presented to us as Saul, the zealous persecutor of the Christians, and again, when "born of the Spirit," as Paul the saintly student and exponent of the Christ-teaching. Saul, we read, was born of good Jewish parentage, in the city of Tarsus, province of Cilicia, Asia Minor.

HISTORY has proven that the unfoldment of ideas in universal consciousness is identical with the awakening of the individual consciousness, so that we may legitimately draw a parallelism between our own spiritual awakening and that of the race. The record of creation, as given in the first chapter of Genesis and extending to the fourth verse of the second chapter, symbolizes the experience of each individual consciousness as it enters into and grasps the truth concerning God, the universe, and man.

THE all-important question, the all-pervasive note in present-day affairs, is freedom. The highest, the noblest, the most sacred quality in human life is freedom.