That
there can be any least disharmony in the realm of Truth is simply unthinkable to those who believe in the God and Father revealed in Jesus Christ.
As
this number of the Sentinel goes to press, the annual meeting of The Mother Church is being held, and Christian Scientists throughout the world will read with rejoicing the report of this meeting, which will appear in our next issue, because more than ever before they have reason to thank God for His abounding goodness.
No forest monarch figures more prominently, perhaps, in Scripture than the fir-tree, and all wood-lovers will recognize how fittingly it stands for true greatness, for the union of strength and sweetness.
It
is well sometimes, when to human sense a storm of discord is raging and the troubled waters threaten to engulf everything in one tremendous tidal wave, to give ourselves pause long enough to remember that God still commands the winds and the waves, and that the "Peace, be still," of the Master was meant for the comfort and solace of anxious hearts in all times and places.
In
Isaiah's prophecy we read, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord," a declaration which all Christian people would do well to ponder daily, since Christ Jesus announced to Pilate that his mission was to "bear witness unto the truth;" that he came to the world for this purpose.
Perhaps
no question has received more attention at the hands of the race than that as to the nature of life, and yet even educated Christian thought about life has for the most part always embraced a palpable contradiction, and is still contending for it.
Who
has not felt a shuddering recoil upon discovering that the heart of a rare, sweet rose has become the banquet hall of a loathsome worm,—that into its perfumed chambers has come this hideously stupid creature, bent solely upon the satisfaction of a grossness that with consuming leisure enters the matchless halls of a palace of purity, and leaves them reeking with foulness and decay.
Throughout
the Scriptures the phrase "a thousand years" is many times used symbolically, sometimes to contrast the mortal sense of time with the spiritual idea of eternity.
