The
beginning of each year is always a time of balancing accounts; most of the world then weighs its past efforts in order that it may know just how it stands.
So sang a well-known poet of the angel message which was heard on that Christmas eve so long ago; thus did she emphasize one keynote of the angels' refrain!
A common
tendency of mortals is to postpone the experience of good to some future time, while they seem ever ready to accept evil as a present reality.
In
that spirited exchange of words between Jesus and the Pharisees gathered in the temple and seeking to confuse him, as recorded in John's gospel, the Master uttered statements of deep significance to the students of his precepts and practices in all time.
The
practitioner of Christian metaphysics becomes convinced that he prays most successfully for the patient who is most receptive of the healing truth.
