HEALTHFUL READING

There is no denying that people in general—children and adults alike—have a keen appetite for mental nutriment as well as for physical food. At a very early date the little child begins to lisp his requests for "stories," and well is it if his need be lovingly and wisely supplied. Not so very long ago it was considered quite proper to tell tales of terror to the little ones,—anything in fact which would rivet their attention,—the narrators being themselves quite ignorant of the effect of this form of entertainment; unaware that it might in many cases tend to induce attacks of disease, and that it was almost sure in after years to create a demand for exciting literature, to say nothing of undesirable results in other directions.

Christian Science has shown us that to think and talk about disease, or any evil, is both harmful and foolish, and that we cannot too earnestly heed the Scriptural injunction, "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely. ... think on these things." There are today thousands who are deeply grateful for the tremendous service rendered by The Christian Science Monitor, which is supplying the reading public with a great amount of interesting information on so many subjects,—information hitherto crowded out of the daily press by sensational articles, or found perchance in such close proximity to undesirable matter that its reading by either young or old was hazardous. What is not good for a child cannot be good for the adult; and according to the great Teacher we must all become childlike if we would "enter into the kingdom of heaven." Conversely, what is good for the adult, and interesting to him, will be no less interesting to the child if rightly presented.

The wonderful development of nature's resources at this period is indeed "stranger than fiction," and no less interesting, especially when we remember that but a few years ago the fear of exhausted supplies was pressing hard upon thoughtful people, who forgot that the kingdom of God was to come down to men with its infinite provision for all human need. As this fact dawns upon human sense we find our supplies everywhere, and we also see them as symbols of spiritual ideas, types of unfailing substance. We read of the alpine snows coming down in torrents and being utilized for lighting and heating the cities, and these streams are termed "white coal." In the Monitor of Dec. 4 is a wonderfully interesting article on the artesian wells of South Dakota. Perhaps the most impressive statement to the average reader would be that which tells of tremendous subterranean pressure that sends up water sufficient for irrigation purposes and also for mill-power, this pressure supposedly coming from the Great Lakes.

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