Perhaps
no activity of the Christian Science church is more palpably rich in blessing for the world collectively and individually than are its testimony meetings.
The
category of worthy subjects about which Paul enjoined the Christians of Philippi to think, namely, the things which "are true,…honest,…just,…pure,…lovely," he appears to have summarized in the final term "of good report.
ON
that morning of the long ago, when the women at the sepulcher were met by the angel who told them that Jesus had risen from the dead, it is little likely they had even a faint concept of what that wonderful event was to mean for all mankind.
OVER
nineteen centuries ago one of the greatest wonders took place ever recorded in the history of mankind,—Christ Jesus overcame the belief of death, and came forth from the tomb.
CHRIST JESUS,
in the twelfth chapter of John's gospel, plainly foretold the experiences which were to befall him; and he forecasted the significance of the crucifixion in these words: "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
To a world of apparent change and decay, what a glorious revelation is the fact of the unchangeable nature of God! All that the human eye perceives, all that the so-called human mind believes itself to be cognizant of,—all alike pass away; but God, the divine Principle of the universe, abides forever.
In
pointing the way whereby men become citizens of God's spiritual kingdom, the Psalmist declared that this exalted state is to be attained by him who has "clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
