Article June 24, 1933 Issue

"Privilege and duty"

DOROTHY ROBB

IN Article VIII, Section 14, of the Manual of The Mother Church, our Leader states, "It shall be the privilege and duty of every member, who can afford it, to subscribe for the periodicals which are the organs of this Church." We are perhaps too apt to regard obedience to the above-mentioned rule primarily as a duty, rather than as a privilege. If we are alert in detecting in this attitude one of mortal mind's subtle efforts to circumvent the power of good, we shall destroy it by the grateful realization of what it means to us to be identified with the activities of The Mother Church—those great avenues for the expression of good.

In this period of world history, when so many issues of vital importance are at stake, every thinking person desires to cast the weight of his moral support and his ballot on the right side. But to attempt to acquaint one's self with the facts regarding public questions through the bewildering mass of contradictions advanced by most news publications may seem almost hopeless. Fortunate are the readers of The Christian Science Monitor, who are privileged in having daily access to the comprehensive, unbiased accounts of both national and international problems. This privilege may be equally appreciated by the housewife and by the man and woman engaged in business affairs. In some instances, contacts with world issues may be reduced to one avenue only—the daily news. Even though subscribing to our periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor, may be achieved only through overcoming the sense of financial lack, one certainly cannot afford to allow himself to become uninformed or misinformed as to important current events.

Because of the seemingly harassed and anxious thought of the world today, knowledge of the practical application in everyday living of the never failing providence of God, as brought out in the articles and testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, is increasingly needed in working out our own individual problems. Statements of the truth when read in the periodicals in connection with some splendid demonstration made through them, are proved to be a help in our own time of need. It is a source of gratitude that the articles in our periodicals point to solutions of problems so applicable to our own as to seem as though they had been written particularly for each individual. How important to the working out of our difficulties it is, then, for us to avail ourselves of this aid as it is liberally offered to us, right at the time when specially needed.

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