The
common reference to the Bible as the Book of Life becomes doubly significant, when through the illuminating teachings of Christian Science it is seen that the experiences of the characters of the Bible are similar to experiences which you and I are facing to-day.
Warren G. Harding
with contributions from Charles E. Hughes
That
season has come when, alike in pursuance of a devout people's time-honored custom and in grateful recognition of favoring national fortunes, it is proper that the President should summon the nation to a day of devotion, of thanksgiving for blessings bestowed, and of prayer for guidance in modes of life that may deserve continuance of divine favor.
It
has been well said that in order to be a success in any thing one must fully believe in one's self; but the belief in one's self requires also a full knowledge of one's self, and here it is well to consider the counsel of Paul when he wrote the Corinthians saying, "And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
If
Mary Baker Eddy had done no more, through her discovery and recovery of Christian Science, than to lift humanity to a higher conception of the word "love," she would have accomplished what idealists everywhere have striven for, throughout all ages.
Very
helpful thoughts have been received through the study of the beautiful narrative of the healing of the centurion's servant as found in the eighth chapter of Matthew.
