A thought-provoking
title for one of the Lesson-Sermons appearing twice yearly in the Christian Science Quarterly is "Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.
In
the seventeenth chapter of John we may read one of the most wonderful prayers ever given, the prayer of Christ Jesus which he prayed before his trial and crucifixion.
Forty-eight
years ago at this season Mary Baker Eddy was asked by the Boston Globe to send "a sentiment on what the last Thanksgiving Day of the nineteenth century should signify to all mankind".
When
Christ Jesus offered his great prayer known to us as the Lord's Prayer, it was in response to a request for instruction from one of his disciples.
When
Christ Jesus spoke of himself as the true vine and his Father as the husbandman, he was using a vividly descriptive metaphor familiar in the East.
