"I am
instructed by our board to write and assure the Publishing Society, through you, of our deep appreciation of the good which the Christian Science literature has brought us; and to assure you further that the increased rates which you have found it necessary to put into effect will be willingly accepted, we feel confident, by this section of the field, and will not curtail in any measure the activities of our distribution committee in their efforts to extend the circulation of our periodical literature.
In
the crises of life we are apt to pause and ask ourselves how much we have attained that is worth while, and in doing so we sometimes find that many things which we at one time deemed of great value had become of little consequence in the struggle for that which was of deeper importance.
When
at any time the shadows of mortal belief fall across our path, we cannot do better than turn for comfort to the divine word as given in the Scriptures and again declared to the present age through our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
The
question is occasionally raised by those outside Christian Science, and even by those who are somewhat interested, why a sick person should go to a fellow being for help; and the argument is on this wise: Is not God just as willing to hear and answer the prayers of one person as another?
When
Jesus blessed and brake the few loaves and fishes and fed a multitude with what had seemed sufficient for the needs of only a small family, he did much more than simply to satisfy the hunger of those who had assembled to hear him expound the word of God.
"Having read your announcement of new prices for our periodicals in the current issue of the Sentinel, I beg to express to you my sincere gratitude for the privilege of having the Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, Monitor, Quarterly, and Der Herold at any price.
All
Christian people are agreed that the Psalms are profoundly spiritual in their appeal to humanity, and that they get at the heart of things, "piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit," and discerning "the thoughts and intents of the heart," to quote from the epistle to the Hebrews.