It
has been very constantly preached, and very generally believed, that the suffering which follows wrong-doing is a divine provision, an expression of what the Old Testament writers called "the vengeance of the Lord.
In
Mark's Gospel we read that Jesus said to a man who had been wonderfully healed by him, "Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
True
gratitude has been well styled the natural response of the heart to kindness, and carries with it a desire to show appreciation for the favor received by requital if possible.
Certain
occasions, considered collectively, individually, and observed properly, tend to give the activity of man infinite scope; but mere merry making or needless gift giving is not that wherein human capacities find the most appropriate and proper exercise.
Will
those beloved students whose growth is taking in the Ten Commandments and scaling the steep ascent of Christ's Sermon in the Mount, accept profound thanks for their swift messages of rejoicing over the Twentieth Century Church Manual?
One
of the doctrines of physical science which seems to find support in natural history is that which declares for the survival of the fittest, and which is often taken to mean the survival of the strongest.
One
of the most lasting impressions gained from a visit to any great industrial mart is that of the racket and roar which characterizes human mechanism and movement, even at its best.
Some
of the good work that is being done by the committee on publication is in the line of correcting misstatements of fact which have gone out over the wires as news, and on this basis have found space in the newspapers of the country.
Some
young Christian Scientists—as well as some who are old enough to know better—seem to entertain the belief that because God is good, they have nothing to do in shaping their human lives but to sit back and state this fact in a sort of automatic way; or, in other words, they expect to reap a harvest without having done the preliminary planting and watering which are as necessary as the sunshine to produce satisfactory fruitage.
