"Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," writes James in the first chapter of his epistle.
Men
generally are taught to believe that they live in and because of matter, that each has a mind of his own resident in brain, and that life, success, and happiness are dependent upon human planning, endeavors, and accomplishments.
Christian Science
is doing a very courageous thing today: it is declaring to the world the perfection of God and the perfection of His entire creation, in the face of what appears to be prevailing imperfection.
The
Annual Meeting of The Mother Church proclaims to the world the unity of good appearing in the Christian Science organization, a unity which members are equipped to prove in the very face of temptation to indulge the dissensions of mortal mind.
In
a consideration of the messages from our Leader to the members of The Mother Church we note that her reports of the spread and progress of the Christian Science movement were subservient always to her repeated calls for greater spiritual growth on the part of the individual church members.
After
the arguments of his three friends had failed to succor and satisfy Job, clear-thinking Elihu came to his rescue and turned his thought to God in a way which eventuated in his healing and restoration.
What
assurance, what faith in God run through the words of Moses which he uttered "unto all Israel" in his farewell message to them: "Be strong and of a good courage,.
Solomon
indicated the beauty of the word in season, its fruitage, and the mental nature of pictures, when he said that "a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.