A great
thinker has said that "few men know how to live," and although this is a self-evident truth, there are perhaps not many who would be willing to apply it to themselves.
The
record of the three years of Jesus' public ministry, as it is given in the four Gospels, is full of the accounts of his healing of the sick, and we get a glimpse of the real magnitude of his labors through John, who closes his account with the statement that if all the things which Jesus did should be written, "even the world itself could not contain the books.
In
exalting the priesthood of Christ Jesus, the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews notes its superiority to every ecclesiastical or hereditary rank and authority, in that it manifests "the power of an endless life.
In
that wonderful story of the healing of a blind man, given in the ninth chapter of John, Jesus asked the man, soon after his healing, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
Much
has been said and written by people quite outside the ranks of Christian Science, in commendation of the optimism and serenity of the followers of this teaching, as shown in their bearing and in their disposition; and to a large degree this commendation has been deserved, although Christian Scientists themselves have been more or less unconscious of the "outward appearance" which has attracted the attention of their friends.
Among
the many ineffaceable memories which the visitor to the Vatican galleries is destined to bring away with him is that of "The Sleeping Ariadne," an antique marble so exquisitely modeled, so instinct with glorious art, as to be universally regarded as the product of a master hand.
It
was a clear, cool day without, so that an overcoat and a brisk gait were called for, and yet the atmosphere of the conservatory we had entered was summerlike and we found ourselves in the midst of a revelry of bloom.
