Paul's
unqualified declaration, "The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to law of God, neither indeed can be," leaves us in no doubt as to the utter disagreement between the so-called carnal or mortal mind, its demands and desires, and the divine Mind, which is God.
The
term "servant" has been so frequently misunderstood and misused that it has fallen more or less into disrepute; while it must always imply service, if service itself be properly understood, servant then comes into its rightful place of honor with all sense of meniality removed.
July Fourth
marked the anniversary of two great events, both of untold importance to mankind: one, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by the American Colonies, an event which gave to the cause of democracy a tremendous impetus; the other, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Christian Science denomination, having for its sacred purpose the setting free of all mankind from the mental salvery which from the beginning had characterized the experience of mortals.
There
is probably no place in all the activities of the Christian Science movement where there is a greater call for self-abnegation than in the business meetings of its branch churches.
The
history of the human race deals largely with mankind's struggle to establish and retain something of the rights with which, it is held, God has endowed man.