A Revelation
of truth is always indicated when the religious terms with which we are familiar come to have a more spiritual, more practical, more inspiring significance, and the application of this simple test brings satisfying assurance to every faithful student of Christian Science that this is indeed a divine light which has been thrown upon the erstwhile obscure pathways and problems of human life.
The
summary of a letter written by General Nogi, which recently appeared in the news columns of the daily press, presents a welcome break in the monotony of the dispatches which have previously chronicled the death of at least seventy-five thousand men in the siege of Port Arthur, for it indicates that the generous courtesy which should ever govern the actions of a brave man has survived the carnage of one of the most sanguinary campaigns in history.
It
has often been observed that children whose parents have done a great deal for them, presume upon the loving kindness of those to whom they are so deeply indebted, and soon come to look upon the property of their parents as something which may be freely used without the formality of first asking permission; and it is to be regretted that, to a certain extent, some Christian Scientists have drifted into this manner of regarding Mrs.
There
are few men who have come into the inheritance of a larger and nobler opportunity than that of the distinguished preacher and journalist upon whose shoulders, eighteen years ago, the mantle of Henry Ward Beecher was laid.
At
the present time, as never before, there seems to be a willingness to permit the fair and free discussion of religious subjects, and this is surely evidence of a deep desire to know the truth.
These
words were spoken by the Master under circumstances which render them peculiarly significant to our times, but their meaning would be unwarrantably restricted if it were limited to a declaration of the sacredness of the marital relation.
Though
our sense of space and time, with all the other limitations of human thought, can but sadly mar our concept of God, nevertheless we may be inspired, find escape from a baser self, as mind and heart are opened to the grandeur and sublimity of the universe about us.