Article June 7, 1930 Issue

The World's Best Book of Stories

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

Everyone wants to be successful: it is the natural wish of every boy and girl. There is really only one basis of true success, and that is a good life. This can be won by turning away from, and refusing to accept, evil, and by constantly choosing good. A great help in learning to live a good life is to study the lives of good men and women and children; and the Bible, more than any other book, gives us this opportunity.

One of the chief demands of mankind to-day is for public libraries; and we find their bookshelves filled. It is vitally important what books we choose to read, for they may make a mark on our lives which will expand into great usefulness and service to ourselves and others; or they may fill our thought with foolish, impossible notions which will not build us up to play our part in the world.

Some books have become standard because they have been proved to be worth reading and rereading. The most popular book, or rather one should say collection of books, which has stood the longest test, is our Bible. There are in the world to-day misguided people who scoff at this great Book, because they do not understand it; but among genuine thinkers it retains its place as the greatest of all books. Mrs. Eddy took it as her only guide in discovering Christian Science. She tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 126): "The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth."

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