Articles

The Lord is at hand. COLOSSIANS iv.

The law was a schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith; but after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. GALATIANS iii.

Again , ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the City of the Great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Much has been said for and against Truth, as declared in Christian Science. Much is said for it; because no one can come to know its meaning, and the power it gives for good, without feeling that it is beyond all things else,—that in reality it embraces all, and there is naught beside it.

Surely the Children of Israel have a home in Mind. To each of them belongs one of the many mansions in the Father's House.

We read in Luke's Gospel (xviii. 19) that Jesus replied to the young man who asked him what he should do to inherit Eternal Life: "Why callest thou me Good? None is Good save one,—that is, God.

In a former article was considered the miracle of healing the lame man, wrought by Peter at the Gate of the Temple, called Beautiful, as related in the third chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. We may gladly consent unto the profession of our Science, that it heals by the same method that the Saviour used.

Says  the Psalmist, "What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me?" To the right loyal Christian Scientists—working through the gloom, joyous in the night, looking for the day—I am the debtor. Words are weak to express either joy or sorrow.

To our Journal : What shall be said of men who profess but do not practice? That they are hypocrites? Not always. As has been wisely said, Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

In the Gospel record we read that at a certain time after the Resurrection, when Jesus was walking with two of his disciples, "their eyes were holden, that they should not know him. " Then the disciples, whose mortal vision had been glorified by seeing the Master raise the dead and walk the wave, lost, for the first time, their understanding that all was Mind, and were withheld, apparently by some power, from realizing that they were in the actual presence of their Master.