One
of the most subtle beliefs of mortal mind is that which declares that there is a well defined law of heredity to which all mankind is subject, not only in individual matters, but also in family, communal, racial, and national affairs.
Out
of that strange masterful time when the Dutch, the Spanish, and the English were contending for the riches of the newly discovered Western Hemisphere, there arose the word filibuster.
Evil's
persistent effort at this particular time seems to be so to engross Christian Scientists in war news and war preparations as to render them perfunctory in their scientific study and work.
Beginners
in the study of Christian Science often ask if they cannot have definite rules given them for working out the problems which they meet in their daily experience.
That
men have held the right of self-government to be more precious than the possession of the sense of life itself, has been recorded in all ages, but not from the time of Jesus until Mrs.
Judas,
the disciple who "went and hanged himself," finished his record in the gospels; but Judas, the symbol of that which seeks to betray the Christ, will drag along a fictitious existence as long as the fiction of mortality itself continues.
That
other than Christian Scientists who have been helped by the Christian Science War Relief Committee are appreciative of the brotherly kindness thus manifested is shown in the letters given below.
