Articles

Christ Jesus' birth in Bethlehem was heralded by the angelic promise of "on earth peace. " Luke 2:14; This promise was not given as though it were conditional on time; it promised immediate peace.

"An highway shall be there, and a way. " This promise from the thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah once came to the writer with special significance.

Ezekiel was the first great prophet of the Exilic period of Hebrew history. Both he and Jeremiah came from priestly parentage, but there was a definite social distinction between them.

Christian Science demands frank and honest facing of the human need and equally bold application of the spiritual remedy. Meeting the human need requires that the Christian Scientist understand a vital factor, namely, the context of general thought within which the stranger views this Science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.

Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Tennyson's lines are unquestionably famous, but the sentiments expressed should be questioned.

People have a way of coining fresh, colorful phrases. Although minted in humor, these are often surprisingly accurate indications of the prevailing mental climate.

A healthy marriage represents sound, whole, and essentially spiritualized thought. It is achieved and maintained by faithful adherence to the Christianly scientific premise of perfect God, Spirit, perfect man, and perfect universe.

One who is spiritually wise is careful about the kind of influence he responds to. True influence is the influence of the Christ, Truth, that persuades one to do the will of God.

A challenge that confronts many Christian Scientists is the severe illness of some member of the family who is not a Christian Scientist. We know, having happily proved it, that Christian Science heals, yet here mortal mind would have us struggle with a sense of self-condemnation because we have failed to get the message across and there seems to be somebody outside our concept of the healing Christ, outside because of his dependence on material rather than spiritual medicine.