We
are sometimes asked what is the duty of Christian Scientists regarding politics, and how much part should they take as individuals in national, state, and municipal elections.
In
commenting upon the ethical value of Biblical stories like that of Abraham's offering of Isaac, the editor of The Outlook has recently referred to the potency of the.
When Jesus gathered the little ones into his loving embrace and said to the grown folk round about him: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God;" and added: "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein;" did he mean you?
It
is said of a late Englishman, that while a man of unusual breadth of learning, even among England's legions of the erudite, he was strikingly unlike most scholarly men in what may be termed the wasteful hoarding of his knowledge, a lifelong habit of reserve in expression having made him a somewhat remarkable example of the "reticence of learning.
The announcement that the anthracite coal strike has practically been settled is cause for general thanksgiving, and the fact that it will be settled without final resort to brute force or starvation is something upon which the operators and miners on one hand, and the general public on the other are to be congratulated.
A special
Lesson Sermon for the Thanksgiving Day service to be held in the Mother Church and the Branch Churches is being prepared, and will be published in due time.
From
time to time, there have been exploited by various papers and magazines, voting contests for the most popular, the wittiest, and so on; the person receiving the greatest number of votes to be awarded a prize.
It is a somewhat unusual thing for a commission of inquiry into economic conditions to commend the practical application of religious teaching as the only remedy for prevailing disorders, and Mr.
Human
sympathy with its open-handed charity, its word of commiseration, its tearful pity, and its tender counselings of resignation, comes to the sufferer in such a guise as not to be easily recognized as the subtlest of enemies.
Human sense is much more successful in self-analysis than in self-correction, and a careful and correct diagnosis of disease is often made when there is a most pitiful and discouraging absence of any suggestion respecting an adequate and available remedy.
