We
are prone to plume ourselves upon what we are accomplishing or have accomplished without duly considering the more vital question of how are we doing our work.
In
the unfoldment of Truth the ideal is ever seeking for its true expression, and if its fair proportions do not appeal to us it evidences the fixity and irresponsiveness of our human sense.
There
seems to come a time in the history of every organization or society, when its members desire to act at once concerning some matter, and in order to expedite action it is proposed to "suspend the rules.
The
rule by which, in Christian Science, the words Principle, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love, are used, as names of God, and as synonymous with the name God, is clearly defined in our text-book, Science and Health.
In
our testimonial meetings and "Testimonies from the Field" we frequently hear and read of the power of a text from the Bible, an expression from Science and Health; of a verse or stanza of a hymn, an inscription, or even a picture, by which the liberated consciousness was flooded with light.
Recently the Chicago Record-Herald published the result of a count of the attendants at the Sunday morning service of 125 of the 666 churches in that city.
A religious contemporary has recently said that the scholars of the world are rapidly giving up their faith in miracles; but they are doing nothing to lessen the appetite for miracles, which is now eager and clamorous.