Articles

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. " 2 Cor.

In its ordinary sense, love signifies little else than blind, selfish passion which seeks only self-enjoyment and ends in envy, hate, revenge, crime. Looking over the world and analyzing its motives and aims, we learn, time and again, the same old lesson,—love accompanied by hate, jealousy, revenge, leading to some terrible denouement.

It is only" he that repenteth and forsaketh his sin that shall find mercy. " That does not mean forsaking it for a day or any period of time, and then resuming it again, but forsaking it finally.

"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee. "—Abram.

Rev. James Boyd Brady, D.

In the thirty-fifth chapter of Exodus we read: "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day. " The penalty affixed to the violation of this command is, that all the congregation shall bring him without the camp and stone him with stones (Num.

In conversation with a business man on the subject of Christian Science, he asked this question: "If I were a Christian Scientist, how could I over-reach my neighbor? The answer was," If you were a Christian Scientist, you would have no desire to over-reach him; but your only thought would be to do unto him as you would have him do unto you. " And here seems to be the very rub in business: the feeling, in the main, to be honest, counteracted by the tendency to over-reach, or get the better of, a competitor in trade for the purpose of worldly gain.

Dear Editor :—You have my permission to state through your Journal, that I am living, and well, and doing well,—if indeed it is right for me to cease awhile from toil. Mary Baker Eddy.

AS medical schools, doctors and material remedies are multiplying at a fearful rate, and still diseases are increasing at a much faster ratio, there is little hope of a victory by that method, so mankind is forced to look in some other direction for relief, and very naturally turns squarely about from the use of outward things, which can be seen, felt, tasted and smelled, and attempts to conquer through inward spiritual or mental force. As homæopathy has spread over the land and almost set entirely aside the barbarous methods of bleeding, blistering, salivating and drugging, and taught the world the force of high attenuations and almost no medicine at all, so mental healing advances and demonstrates still farther that material remedies are in many troubles entirely unnecessary.

The Christian Science Journal for June opens with a short poem, "Laying the Corner Stone," by Mary B. Eddy, followed by a communication from the same pen referring to the ceremony of laying the corner stone of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, on May 21st, 1894.