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WHO SHALL BE GREATEST?
When the disciples asked Christ Jesus (Matt. 18:1), "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" he pointed them to the humility of a little child. On another occasion, which Luke records (22:24-27), when there was "a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest," he explained that it would be "he that doth serve." He said very simply, "I am among you as he that serveth." True greatness, then, is to be found in childlike humility and guilelessness, which demonstrate spiritual power; in useful service, which blesses all. These are the measurements of divinity.
Christian Science teaches greatness through service. It arrests self-importance by its humbling test of spiritual dominion over sin, sickness, and every mortal distress. It proves that self-immolation, not self-exaltation, provides the greatness that heals through goodness.
May 5, 1951 issue
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"THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED"
PETER B. BIGGINS
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"THE JOY OF PATHS UNTROD"
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK
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UPSIDE DOWN OR RIGHT SIDE UP?
JENS OSVALD LAURITZEN
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TRUE FOLLOWING
LUIE HOPKINS BALL
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SECURITY
Hazel Harper Brandner
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INNER PEACE AS THE WORLD PROGRESSES
ROBERT DOLLING WELLS
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GOD'S WILL IS THE LAW OF LIFE
MYRTLE A. CASH
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SHEPHERDING OUR PROGRESS
WILLIAM GILBERT
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CLIMB!
William Aubert Luce
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CONCERNING THE CHRIST
Robert Ellis Key
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WHO SHALL BE GREATEST?
Helen Wood Bauman
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I am increasingly grateful to God...
Joan Marie Madsen
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One summer recently I caught...
Cecil Digby Burnham
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I have much to be grateful for...
Jeanette Wieand Grub
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My first contact with this liberating...
Elsie Holmes
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I did not take up the study of...
Cara Jane Miller
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At the height of a so-called critical...
Dorris K. Weyreter
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I have depended entirely on...
Helenruth D. Courtney with contributions from Barbara Courtney Driver
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I am grateful to have had a loving...
James C. Watson
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As a child I attended an orthodox...
Arma L. Cardey with contributions from Vernon Cardey
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About thirty-five years ago, as a...
Sara E. Allen
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W. A. Cameron, G. M. Ottsen