How often there comes from so-called mortal mind this plaint of self-righteousness and belief in personal goodness: "What's the use of trying to be good?
There
was a time, and not so many years ago, when members of the crow family could be diverted from newly planted cornfields and gardens by crossed sticks stuck in the ground, and covered with a worn-out shirt or coat, topped with an old hat.
Dictionaries
inform us that a holiday was originally what the term indicates—a holy day, a period of rest from labor, in which one might devote his thought and energies to religious worship.
The
two words "conservative" and "liberal" are becoming increasingly important in denoting the difference in viewpoint among the peoples of the earth on matters political and religious.
How bright, so many times, are the promises of life held out by the so-called human mind, how sparkling the hopes, how great the expectations! With what confidence one faces these bright promises, only too often to have them betrayed, and fade drably into unfulfillment.
When
you and I are tempted to put on a display of bad temper, to indulge in unjust criticism, to yield to sin, or in any other way to let our thoughts and acts be governed by the godless material mind, the opposite of God, we have then and there an opportunity to put into effect true self-government.
Without
doubt alert students of Christian Science in every land cherish the desire to be present, sometime, at an Annual Meeting of their Mother Church in Boston.
In
reading the stirring account of the Acts of the Apostles as related in the New Testament, one is impressed with the frequency with which the record of their acts is prefaced with the words "with one accord.
