The
story of the unjust steward, as it is called, might well be named the story of the dishonest steward; but since the peculiar form of dishonesty described involved such scheming as drew forth a compliment from the defrauded employer, as if he thought it an evidence of cleverness, the above title may not be inapt.
An
appreciative audience which not only filled the five thousands seats of the new auditorium of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, but likewise all the available standing-room, listened with close attention to the lecture delivered Tuesday evening, Oct.
with contributions from H. T. Potten, H. Scott Holland
Those who are reckoning the growth or decay of their sects should consider whether the vital question is not which of them is getting most of the church-attending population, but whether the best part of the modern world is coming to church at all.
Failure to secure peace, happiness, and contentment through what the world has to offer, has doubtless turned many a weary earthbound traveler to seek them from higher and spiritual sources, and for this reason thousands have found in Christian Science that which satisfies the longings of humanity, in the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures as taught in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I had
been reading the Christian Science text-book several years without seriously apprehending its meaning, when one day the question as to the "why" and "wherefore" of things brought up the remarkable answer of Jesus to the inquiry of Pilate, recorded in the eighteenth chapter of St.