It
is not conceivable that a God who is at once goodness and Love, should not have provided happiness for His creation, since every idea must be a reflection of the creator's own pure joy.
The
record of Uzzah's sin, as given in II Samuel, has been a salutary lesson to the writer, who in the first years of membership in the Christian Science church erred, as did Uzzah, in thinking that her responsibility was to steady the ark of God.
The
only evil we have to combat is the carnality of human sense, which is constantly whispering untrue, unkind, unholy thoughts,—thoughts of envy, jealousy, hatred, revenge, covetousness, and such like.
Most
people read a great deal, probably far too much, even of good literature, for there is a limit to the capacity of our mental digestion: but how many read with the thought of study?
In glancing over the pages of the great daily newspapers of this country—the journals of immense circulation and corresponding influence—the average right-thinking man is often moved to wish that there was less of enterprise and more of morality in the business of journalism.
The "sensational incident" at the Young Men's Christian Association service is to be deplored, and no one regrets it more than the friend whose zeal for the moment got the better of his judgment.
