Jesus
brought out significantly the need of watching to prevent ills from overtaking us when he said, "If the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
John Allen Northfield, Committee on Publication for Suffolk, England,
The report of the Christian Science lecture in a recent issue has evidently given your correspondent "Studious" food for thought, and his suggestion that it should be read a second time is a good one.
While
mankind has striven earnestly through material inventions to make every mode of travel as safe as possible, frequent disasters show how inadequate, at such times, are material devices for protection and safety.
Some
few years ago, a Christian Science practitioner pointed out to a young student the need for alertness with regard to the false belief of old age, with all its unhappy accompaniments, and how necessary it is for us to protect ourselves from this belief.