The
vigor and commercial progressiveness of the western world, the abandon with which great business enterprises are entered into, and the ever-increasing habits of luxurious living with their multiplying demands for sense excitation,—all these certainly tend to relegate the cultivation of the meditative mood to the background.
The
word redemption, as understood in Christian Science, gains new significance and value as the spiritual process indicated by It becomes better understood.
In
some of the branch churches, especially at the time at which changes in officers are to be made, there often seems to be a great perplexity in regard to the eligibility of certain persons for certain offices.
To
see a great magnet gather the nails and other bits of metal out of the rubbish of a steel mill, is to witness a wonderful question-awakening phenomenon, and find an illuminating illustration of the selective drawing-power of the spiritually-minded, the men and women who, securely linked to God, are expressing that discriminating activity of divine Love which is no less considerate and judician than it is outreaching and irresistible.
About
every so often, we hear of an incident through which the pronouncement goes forth from some one in a representative capacity for some denomination, that the Christian Science church is not evangelical.
In
ancient times, as we read in the Scriptures, spiritual leaders were chosen from among the people to make known to them the divine purpose and power, and to inspire them with a desire to obey the divine will.
In
the Foreword to "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," written in 1906, there are a number of significant declarations in regard to the establishment by Mrs.
