In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Standardization

Standardization is one of the recent fashions in the business world, where new fashions as regularly may be found as in clothing or medicine or national armaments.

Signs of the Times

[From "The Decline and Fall of 'Matter,' "by R.

No Responsibility

The writer was greatly relieved from a false sense of responsibility by reading in a Christian Science article "that the practitioner is not responsible for the truth she is declaring, any more than the teacher is responsible for the law of mathematics that removes the mistake in a sum.

Man's Real Entity

In the dictionary may be found the following definitions of entity: "Essence;" "real being;" "existence;" and Mrs.

Authority

Common usage has deprived the word "authority" of its original meaning and no longer associates it with the idea of author or creator.

The Light of Intelligence

Some years ago one who had faith in God but who understood not His word offered earnest prayers for the deliverance of the famine-stricken of India.

Law

Law is the fundamental of growth or the restriction of liberty, just as a man believes that it deprives him of something desirable or helps him to retain it.

Motives

The average man is serenely unconscious of any need for introspection.

Gratitude

The cynic who said that "gratitude is a lively appreciation of favors to come" spoke more truly than he knew, for surely one element of true gratitude is the recognition that as God, good, is all, only good is in store for man.

Signs of the Times

[From President Harding's Speech at the Plymouth Tercentenary Celebration, as Reported in The Christian Science Monitor]

What Ye Shall Eat

In the Scriptures we read: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God;" that is, man is sustained spiritually.

Return, O Israel

WHEN Mary Baker Eddy startled the world many years ago with her statement of the nothingness of matter, there were very few who were willing to accept her discovery, and when she further announced that what religious belief had called God is not a person but Principle governing the entire universe, many people objected.