All
through the Scriptures are admonitions to watchfulness, and nowhere do we find greater emphasis placed upon it than in the Master's own teachings, the nature of his warnings being twofold.
The
greatest possible contribution to the settlement of theological problems is found in the teaching of Christian Science that the rational and demonstrably true interpretation of the Scripture must in every instance begin with God, and that it must consent to no concepts which are out of harmony with His ideal and infinite nature.
With
most of us, especially those who are no longer children, Christmas is a retrospective season, and we are apt to compare the past with the present, possibly to indulge in vain regrets for the days that are gone, when perchance the good we then had was little appreciated.
Without
any disparagement of the good things directly within their own sphere of action, and the multitudinous efforts for social betterment which the churches find themselves called upon to advocate from their pulpits, we quote as follows from an editorial which appeared recently in the Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine:—
Many
of those who come to Christian Science for healing, soon discover that the truth does not deal with their physical ailments alone, but extends to all the phenomena of human experience.
A prominent
writer has recently made the rather startling declaration that "we live in a mannerless age," that the thought and bearing of the people at large is characterized by a pitifully discreditable degree of irreverence, incivility, and immodesty.
The Thanksgiving season, with its high tones of gratitude for blessings divinely bestowed, is over, and we begin to ask ourselves what are its abiding lessons for us.
If
the letters received at this office from time to time are to be taken as indicative of the thought of the field at large, there is considerable perplexity among Christian Scientists as to what their attitude should be toward what is termed Christian Science literature, but not "authorized," as are our Leader's writings and the periodicals issued under the auspices of The Christian Science Publishing Society.
