Articles

I cannot but think that one of the truest ways in which Christianity has made humility at once a commoner and a nobler grace, has been in the way it has furnished work for the higher powers of man, which used to be idle and only ponder proudly on themselves. Idleness standing in the midst of unattempted tasks is always proud.

THE writer of the epistle to the Hebrews assures us that we are the house of Christ, "if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. " Here is truly the test of Christian faith, and here is the real presence of Christ manifest in the daily life of the Christian—if our hope gives not only confidence but rejoicing.

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

WE often hear it said that the most marked tendency of these times is centralization; the elimination of circuitous routes; the shortening of processes. We are said to be living very fast nowadays, and there is constant effort toward doing away with delay and useless circumlocution in all lines.

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.