Toward
the close of Matthew's gospel we find many trenchant utterances by Christ Jesus which point to the passing of materiality with all its miseries, and the establishment in human consciousness of God's eternal kingdom.
The
nature and potentialities of Soul are a matter of vital interest to students of Christian Science, as well may be the case when we recall the words of Christ Jesus, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The
frequent references of the Old Testament Scriptures to peace as a supreme possession and ordained of God, are imperfectly understood so long as we think of it as meaning simply rest and ease, however good and desirable these may seem.
If
any warrant for the healing of sickness as a natural and inevitable part of Christianity were needed, it is easily found in the words and works of Christ Jesus,—in his reiterated instructions to his disciples to heal the sick, in his own demonstrations of the power of God to heal all manner of diseases which constituted his answer to John's inquiry if he was indeed the promised Messiah, and in his parting instructions to the disciples at Bethany.
Writing
to the Romans of the significance of belief, and illustrating his point by reference to the prevailing notions of his countrymen respecting ceremonially pure and impure foods, St.
In
these days of social and industrial unrest, when men are arrayed against each other and the problem of an equitable adjustment seems difficult of solution, here and there a great cry goes up for the multiplication of laws which will regulate the relations of all classes.
We
are living in the "wireless age," when the known flight of electric impulse through the vastness of space gives us firmer foothold for faith, since it makes a limited sense of the amplitude of Truth's redemptive radition seem the more incongruous and out of keeping.
It
is worthy of note that the first declaration of the mission of Christ Jesus to the children of men, as recorded in the New Testament, is that "he shall save his people from their sins;" and as we follow him through his brief ministry it is made clear that the primary purpose of his coming was the awakening of mankind to universal salvation, to a recognition of the at-one-ment of God and man, and the leading of humanity through progressive steps to that knowledge of God which he said was "life eternal.