The
Scripture saying, "None of us liveth to himself," has always been seen to be ethically true, and today it is becoming manifest that it is also economically true; that is to say, the Christian call to fraternalism is being enforced by the requirements of self-protection.
In
the fourth chapter of II Kings we find the beautiful story of the widow who in her deep trouble went, not to a money-lender, but to Elisha the prophet, of whose spiritual power she was not ignorant; for even at that early day it was recognized that knowledge is power.
The
fact that church attendance has so largely fallen off in late years has greatly disturbed church people, and many have been the expedients tried for the purpose of reversing this condition, the latest being the "Go-to-church Sunday" movement which is now holding the attention and the hopes of so many religious people.
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.