Looking
at life from a mortal, material standpoint what a sad scene presents itself! The daily record of events presents the medley of life and death, day after day, in varied tales of crime, disaster, sorrow, suffering, as the panorama—the dream of the false sense of life—moves on.
While
the newspapers of to-day are unquestionably marvelous as achievements, when compared to those that were considered the most finished productions of the press a few years ago, the limit to this improvement has by no means been reached.
There are few better protections against unworthy conduct than the faculty of believing in yourself and taking a high estimate of what the future has in store for you.
It
may be interesting and helpful to those who are beginning to read Christian Science literature, and who stumble at the statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G.
A story
even more striking and more pathetic than that of Father Damien is told in a thin volume of one hundred and seventeen pages—"Mary Reed, Missionary to the Lepers, by John Jackson, with an Introductory Note by the Rev.
The
following was published in the Boston Herald of December 26, relative to an editorial in that paper which, among other things, claimed that Christian Scientists seek to practise in an unnatural way merely for personal benefits.
