Persistency
is that mental quality which distinguishes the successful worker in any direction, for it is seldom indeed that even the most intelligent and conscientious effort secures at once the desired result.
As
we share the sorrow of our brothers across the sea, for the passing of their king, we can but think of what loyalty to the throne means to all British subjects wherever they may sojourn.
Some
of our friends have asked us to sound a note of warning in regard to the tendency upon the part of branch churches to "call" Readers from other fields, in preference to electing from their own membership to these important offices.
There
are many Christian people who unhesitatingly accept the teaching of Christ Jesus as the highest spiritual authority, and yet who find it difficult if not impossible to explain or approve his statements and attitude as recorded in the 46th to the 50th verses of the 12th chapter of Matthew, where he seems to have turned away from the human sense of sonship and declared for the supremacy of the spiritual.
Through
all the centuries mankind has been cheated and defrauded by its belief that evil is something real and powerful, but in the last half century, fortunately, through the discovery of Christian Science and its teachings by Mrs.
The
parable of the tares rebukes a habit which is pitiful enough when grounded in ignorance, and which, when grounded in maliciousness, is simply despicable.