Articles

"(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. " 2 Cor.

TO say there is no evil, or animal magnetism, because God is Love and there is nothing beside Him, is scientific. But to say there is no such claim to meet and reduce to its native nothingness, is unscientific for this is -equivalent to saying we have reached absolute Harmony, hence have overcome all error.

THE recent remark of a lady, now a living picture of health, has left a deep impression on my mind. She said, it almost made her tremble to think how near she came to giving up Christian Science treatment, simply because she had not been healed at once.

MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD says that "the best way to bring up a boy, is to begin one hundred years, at least, before his advent.

PAUL tells us in Hebrews xi. 10 : "For he looketh for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

ABOUT a year ago I heard a woman preach a sermon on Idolatry, in a town about fifty miles from here. The ideas expressed seemed to me the most reasonable of any I had ever heard on that subject, and I concluded right away to go some time during the summer and hear her again; but, being very busy with the affairs of the material world, I neglected it.

"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, 29.

THIS may seem a small word to talk about, yet it appears to me, there is no word in the human language that means more to the Christian Scientist. The whole effort of evil seems aimed against it.

IS there anything in the Bible or Science and Health to justify the idea that healing is a lower thought in Science, which Scientists outgrow? Is there anything in the example of the Apostles or Jesus that warrants it? As to the example of Jesus, examining Robinson's Harmony of the Gospels, in which the events are chronologically arranged, we find that Jesus healed almost up to the last month of his ministry. This adverse thought may have been occasioned by the fact that healing is one of the first steps to take in demonstrating Christian Science; also by the fact that a smaller degree of spiritual realization suffices, at first, to heal than to teach; but it does not follow from this that the advanced Christian Scientist outgrows healing sickness, any more than the astronomer outgrows arithmetic.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed; for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 2 John i.