He
who has not acquired the gentle art of turning his back upon the things of yesterday, has missed one of the most practical ways of enriching the joys of to-day, for while maintaining due regard for all the good, beautiful, and true it has embraced, we may still say that altogether the best thing about human history is this: that we can let it remain a thing "that was and is not.
Fancy
that our thoughts, just now in "this fair companie," should break the restraining bonds of speech, defy discretion, ignore courtesy, throw off all the insincerity of tact and suavity, and speak for themselves right out, how would they bear the test?
It
has been customary, with many persons, to usher in the New Year with sundry good resolutions; but, unfortunately, the world has come to look upon these resolutions as ephemeral, and upon the custom itself as sentimental rather than practical.
Whoever
takes the time to look through the pages of current religious literature will be impressed with the warring incongruities, the turmoil and tussle of the world's expressed convictions.
We
are informed that some of the smaller churches, when electing new Readers, have been impressed with a lack of available material within their own ranks, and have felt compelled to draw upon other fields, a condition that should not exist after three years of active public work.
There shall be a Building Committee which shall consist of not less than three members of this Church in good standing, elected by a majority vote of the Christian Science Board of Directors and with the approval of the Pastor Emeritus.
IN
our Master's wonderful object-lesson, which for nineteen centuries has been directing men back to the simplicity of childhood if they would find the gateway to heaven, the child has, by common interpretation, come to mean the consciousness of innocence, purity, and obedience.
IN
counselling the Colossians Paul said, "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man,"—and the injunction is certainly very wise and pertinent.
