With
wonderful wisdom and foresight our revered Leader has directed that the first lessons of the children in our Sunday Schools shall be the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
The
extent of man's God-given authority is graphically outlined in the first chapter of Genesis, where man is spoken of as having "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
When
Christ Jesus declared that "a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," he enunciated that unvarying law of identification and estimate which is divine, and which Christian Science insists upon and is ready to submit to as a final test of values.
We
are often reminded in modern times of the proud boast of the Laodiceans, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;" and of the stern rebuke of Spirit, "Thou.
It
sometimes appears to those who are engaged in slowly and patiently building up a Christian Science church or society in a small city or town, that perhaps more aggressive methods than those ordinarily in use might be employed with advantage, in order to secure more quickly the desired growth in numbers of the church membership.
We
again call our readers' attention to the fact that authorized Christian Science literature, whether books, pamphlets, or periodicals, is published only by Mrs.
It
is deeply interesting to study the many exhortations to trust which are to be found in the Scriptures, and the wonderful examples of trust in the divine power which appear along with them.
No characteristic of the present time is more proverbial than that tensity of life which has rendered satisfaction and content well-nigh obsolete, not only in the realm of business, but in the haunts of recreation and the retirement of home.