The wonderful progress which Christian Science has made, and its remarkable growth in less than half a century from a little handful to more than a million of adherents, its revival of primitive Christianity, healing and teaching as the Master commanded,—all this has brought forth much comment from pulpit and press.
My attention has been drawn to an editorial, recently published in your paper, which referred to the home secretary's method of dealing with suffragettes.
In
that wonderfully vivid description of the temptation in the wilderness, Milton in his "Paradise Regained" depicts "the evil one" as reminding Jesus that "all knowledge is not couched in Moses' law,.
An
experience, the remembrance of which is continually recurring with ever-increasing thankfulness to God, may help some one to see how ever ready our heavenly Father is to help and guide us if we really turn to Him with all our hearts.
In
the prophecy of Isaiah we read, "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
The
great thinkers of the world who have pressed home the question of the sources of knowledge, have shown that in the last analysis all we know is thought, since the process of knowing is itself a process of thinking.
The
only kind of prayer that was used or commended by the Master and his apostles was the prayer of faith, that is, a living reliance upon what they understood of God.
