In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

The following letter has been received by the trustees of the First Baptist church, Westerly, R.

Work

A MAN once complained to a fellow-workman, whose motive was to work for the sake of his work and not for money, that he had tried to find employment but had failed.

"A grain of mustard seed"

A USEFUL parallel may be drawn between our sense of the apparently insignificant mustard seed and the too common indifference to the present moment.

Essentials and Non-essentials

You cannot tell what mankind believe by what they say.
The question whether Jesus' teachings are practicable at the present time should be decided on the basis of their veracity.

Life the Way

The expression, "God took him to himself," is generally used in reference to so-called death, that stage of human experience when mortal mind decides that the semi-religious, semi-material sense which men call a "soul" must part company from its supposed prison-house, the body, and seek another sphere, presumably within material space, wherein it can be "forever with the Lord.

From our Exchanges

It is quite true that we have become, as a people, too reckless in the pursuit of wealth, that the nation "needs a new baptism of the old virtue of honesty.
Mary Baker G.
Not long since two gentlemen entered a railway coach.
A casual observer cannot fail to recognize that to the skill of Mrs.
To the Christian Scientist it is quite clear that God, being infinite, omnipotent, and omniscient, the author, the creator of all that is, could not create or permit that which is absolutely unlike himself.
The healing in Christian Science is not the greatest tenet of the belief.