Articles

No man is called to a life of self-denial for its own sake. It is in order to a compensation which, though sometimes difficult to see, is always real and always proportionate.

Beloved Students: In thanking you for your gift of the pretty pond contributed to my "sweet home" in Concord, New Hampshire, I make no distinction between my students and your students; for here, thine becomes mine through gratitude and affection. As from my tower window I look on this smile of Christian Science, this gift from my students and their students, it must always mirror their love, loyalty and good works.

Truth never chemicalizes. It is only mortal mind that seems to do that.

"And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. "— Luke xiii.

When our erected Temple stands erected in Mind, all will have fallen into their own places. It is not for any one to say where he or she belongs.

Up to this time, I have once or twice alluded to the Bible as my Schoolmaster. This it literally was, as I early learned to read from it with the help of the sailors.

The following extract copied from a letter to me recently received from a wellknown Christian Scientist, may at least amuse the readers of our Journal. After doing justice to this subject I had dropped it, as we naturally turn away from a fossilized falsehood.

How prone is mortal mind, alias human nature, alias human wisdom, to judge! Ever since the serpent whispered its subtle error into the listening ear of Eve, and led her to fancy she had a knowledge of good and evil, human wisdom has been striving to assert itself and demonstrate its assumed superiority. Human wisdom would long since have driven Divine Wisdom out of the world, if it could have done so.

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. — Matthew xxv.

It is the great achievement of modern times that men have acquired something like a definite knowledge of the material world about them. Accurate knowledge has supplanted vague speculation.