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.
THE
word "sympathy" conveys to the human thought such diverse impressions that its use in Christian Science needs to be considered with care, in order that all it represents of good may not be lost sight of; and at the same time that its mistaken aspects may be recognized and avoided.
WHEN
the Apostle James in his general epistle declared "pure religion and undefiled before God" to be this: "To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world," he defined it in terms of its practice, a method at once explicit and logical.
On page 457 of the Sentinel of February 3 appears a poem, many lines of which are exact reproductions of a poem written not long since by a well-known poet of the day.