Common
usage has emphasized the definition of criticism as censure or unfavorable comment to such an extent that it almost never recognizes the equally correct definition of critical observation, true judgment, or detailed examination.
THE
moment we set self aside and understand that we can of ourselves do nothing, or realize as did Paul when he said in his letter to the Corinthians, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God," then and then only are we assured of the success in which discouragement plays no part.
The
Christian world is very familiar with the text, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
The
psalmist says: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
There
should be no diversity of opinion as to the requisites of civil and social conduct and our duty to organized society; but in human fallibility we find a wide divergence in beliefs of what may constitute the necessary qualities of good citizenship.
In
the twenty-second chapter of Matthew we read that Jesus said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
When
one suffering from what has been pronounced by materia medica to be an incurable disease turns in his extremity to Christian Science for treatment and finds himself healed physically and uplifted mentally, he naturally wants to know something more of this Science.
In
expressing the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer in the first chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.
