At
this season of the year the word Thanksgiving is often heard among American people, and the sentiments associated with the name are without doubt many and varied.
In
his last long heart-to-heart talk with his disciples, Jesus said to them, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit,.
It
sometimes happens that when a student of Christian Science places emphasis upon the spiritual sense of a passage of Scripture, the listener concludes that he therefore denies or ignores the literal sense of the statement in question.
In
the fourteenth chapter of Revelation we read of an angel who was sent forth to proclaim the everlasting gospel to "every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people"—none being unprovided for by divine Love and wisdom.
Nothing
is more distorting to judgment, more despoiling in the long run to happiness of heart, than the habit of looking at things from a petty point of view.
It
has been said that the more healing work there is done by Christian Scientists, the greater will be the growth of the movement and the greater will be the consequent benefit conferred upon humanity.
THE
saying of a recent Christian writer, that "the only theology which is likely to last is one that admits a large degree of Christian agnosticism," may prove rather startling to some, since it seems to link faith and unbelief in a way which is altogether incongruous.
ALL
students of Christian Science are familiar with the words of the "explanatory note" found on page 4 of our Quarterly, and read at every Sunday service before the Lesson-Sermon begins.
WITH
the superficial observer, Christian Science and faith-healing are apt to be rated as one and the same, and it is for this reason that Christian Scientists are sometimes called upon the explain the difference between their practise and that which is ordinarily termed faith-cure.