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T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S PR IDE The life and death of Jesu s Christ a re a standing rebuke to every form of p rid e to which we are subject. 1. P rid e of b irth and rank. Mt. 13: 55; Mk. 6:3. 2. P ride of w ealth. Mt. 8:20. 3. P ride of respectability. Jn . 1:46. 4. P ride of personal appearance. Isa. 53:2. 5. Pride of reputation. Mt. 11:19; Lk. 7:34. 6. P rid e of independence. Lk. 8:3. 7. P ride of learning. Jn. 7:15. 8. P rid e of superiority. Lk. 22:27; Gal. 3:13. 9. P ride of success. Jn . 1 :11 ; 7 :5 ; Isa. 53:3. 10. P ride of self-reliance. Lk. 2:51. 11. P ride of ability. Jn . 8:28. 12. P rid e of self-will. Jn . 5:30. 13. P ride of intellect. Jn. 8:28. 14. P ride of party. Mk. 9:39, 40. THREE F .’s F erv en t today— Rom. 12:11. F o rg e t yesterday— Phil. 3:13. F re t no t about tomorrow—Mt. 6:34. - -K. L. B. HIS WHEAT Matt. 3:12 I. The Children of th e Kingdom. Matt. 13:24, 25, 38. II. Sifted.— Luke 22:31. III. Im itated ,—Matt. 13:38. IV. Gathered Into H is Garner. Luke 3:17.— R. S. Beal.
MRS. EDDY ON CONSCRIPTION / “The Crowning Jfest of th e Divine D ictator” is th e phrase which a news paper w riter uses to ch aracterize a ru le Mother Eddy made in h er chapter on “Discipline,” in h er Church Manual. These rules for her own benefit, “ im pelled by a power no t h e r own, were w ritten a t different dates,” she tells us, “ and as th e occasion requ ired .” The p articu lar ru le in question has to do w ith th e distressing problem of domes tic help, which problem it b rillian tly solves in th e following way: “ If th e au th o r of th e Christian Science Text Book calls on th is Board for household help or a handm aid, th e Board shall imm ediately appoint a prop er member of th is church th erefo r and th è appointee shall go imm ediately in obedience to th e call. ‘He th a t loveth fath e r or m other more th a n me is no t w orthy of me.” Mrs. Eddy was clearly a partisan of. conscription.—-Ree. of Chris. Work. GOD ON H ER VISITING LIST We h eard a woman who said she had God on h er “visiting list.” We recoil from th e phrase, b u t it describes a very aw ful commonplace. Thousands have God on th e ir visiting lists. They pay H im courtesy calls, and between th e calls, He is forgotten. P erhap s the call is paid once a week in th e social functions of worship. P erhap s it is paid more rarely, like calls between comparative strangers. How g rea t the con trast between ode who m erely pays Him pop-calls and those who “ dwell in th e secret place of th e Most H igh.” HOW TO JOIN GOD’S FAMILY “As many as receive Him (Jesus C hrist) to them gave he power to become th e children of God, even to them th a t believe on H is nam e: who were born no t of blood, nor o f th e will of man, but of God.”
SUPERLATIVES I. The G reatest Book— The W ord of God. II. The G randest Person— The Son of God. \ III. The Best Life—The Man of God. — R. S. Beal.
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