In
"Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll makes the Duchess say in a hoarse growl, "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a great deal faster than it does.
Equality
among men and nations, individuals and races, has been sought by mankind throughout the ages in many and varied ways, both violent and peaceful, more recently through legislation, arbitration, and distribution of wealth.
How the light of courage and spiritual uplift can flood our thinking when hope—gentle, radiant hope—is bidden to enter our mental homes and throw open the shutters! This hope is never forlorn, for it is first of all Christian, and thus ever consonant with the expectation of good.
John's
Gospel recounts that when the Master was once in Cana of Galilee, a nobleman came to him and implored him to come to Capernaum, where his son was very ill.
On
January 1, 1910, the revered Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, then approaching, according to the measurement of years, her ninetieth milestone, wrote the following verses.
One
distressing evil that harasses many a mortal is the belief that he is inferior to his fellows, is less capable, less able to accomplish and succeed.
To the human sense of things, anniversaries may prove to be times of joy or moments of sadness, times for a resurgence of glad memories or occasions when old wounds seem to be reopened.
