Article February 3, 1934 Issue

Do You Know Your Concordance?

WILLIAM R. RATHVON

The carpenter who would become a skillful artisan, but who uses only his hammer and saw, can nail shingles and saw planks; when, however, he gets jobs requiring skill and precision, he has to turn them over to his fellow workmen. He may have access to a shop full of sharp tools and a handbook telling him how to use them, but if he sticks only to his hammer and saw he remains a novice, while he might have become a master workman.

Every Christian Scientist is a builder. Whether he remains in the saw and hammer class or becomes a dexterous artisan rests with himself. At his disposal are a shop full of the finest tools ever made and a handbook telling him where to find them. The shop full of tools is the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," replete with succinct statements of Truth; the handbook is our Concordance, which gives their page and line.

Many mistakenly regard a concordance merely as an index to which one may turn to find the context of a desired word; but it is much more than that, for it shows how often the author has used the word, in what connection it was used, and tells where to find it. It not only prints the word itself but gives each sentence, phrase, or grouping in which it appears.

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