1909
Paper Devoid of Crime
It Will Be Published by the Christian Scientists in Boston
The Christian Science Sentinel of Boston announces the establishment by the church's publishing society of a new daily paper to be known as the Christian Science Monitor. The announcement in part is as follows:
"The current of human thought is setting in the direction of that which alone is real — the good that men do, not the evil. It will be the mission of the Monitor to publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner, devoid of all the sensational methods employed by so many papers. There will be no exploitation of illustration.
"The aim of the editors will be to issue a paper which will be welcome in every home where purity and refinement are cherished ideals."
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Flood the World with Great Affection
1895
With a Great Affection
He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career, and he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best. — R. D. Hitchcock.
The Truth and Right
There has always been, and there always will be, the brave advancing minority, the world's hope, the invincible few — not a remnant, meaning something left over, but a leadership, keeping in the van of thought, bearing and daring for what they believe to be true and right. — John Learned.
With the Right
The broadest and most far sighted intellect is utterly unable to foresee the ultimate consequences of any great social change. Ask yourself on all occasions, if there be any element of right or wrong in the question before you. If so, take your part with the right, and trust God to see that it shall prove the expedient. — Wendell Phillips.
With a Great Affection
He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career, and he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best. — R. D. Hitchcock.
The Truth and Right
There has always been, and there always will be, the brave advancing minority, the world's hope, the invincible few — not a remnant, meaning something left over, but a leadership, keeping in the van of thought, bearing and daring for what they believe to be true and right. — John Learned.
With the Right
The broadest and most far sighted intellect is utterly unable to foresee the ultimate consequences of any great social change. Ask yourself on all occasions, if there be any element of right or wrong in the question before you. If so, take your part with the right, and trust God to see that it shall prove the expedient. — Wendell Phillips.
No Good Deed or Sacrifice is Wasted
1895
God Will Use It
"No good deed, no genuine sacrifice, is over wasted. If there be no good in it, God will use it for His own holy purposes, and whatever of ignorance or weakness or mistake was mingled with it will drop away as the withered petals drop away when the full flower has blown." — Frederic W. Farrar.
A Deadly Sin
What makes selfishness such a deadly sin is that it is a self-deceiving sin. A thief knows that he is a thief; a liar that he has told falsehoods; but a selfish man does not know he is selfish, hence he never repents of his sin and it grows with his growth, strengthens with his strength.
The Current of Life
Keep the current of your life broad and full. To do this your thoughts must be full. Share your thoughts with others in different as well as in the same walks of life, and open your mind to share in their plans, aims, feeling, troubles and joys.
God Will Use It
"No good deed, no genuine sacrifice, is over wasted. If there be no good in it, God will use it for His own holy purposes, and whatever of ignorance or weakness or mistake was mingled with it will drop away as the withered petals drop away when the full flower has blown." — Frederic W. Farrar.
A Deadly Sin
What makes selfishness such a deadly sin is that it is a self-deceiving sin. A thief knows that he is a thief; a liar that he has told falsehoods; but a selfish man does not know he is selfish, hence he never repents of his sin and it grows with his growth, strengthens with his strength.
The Current of Life
Keep the current of your life broad and full. To do this your thoughts must be full. Share your thoughts with others in different as well as in the same walks of life, and open your mind to share in their plans, aims, feeling, troubles and joys.
Religion Brings Pleasure, Spiritual Good as Law of Life
1895
What Religion Does
It is a mistake to suppose that religion is designed to eliminate pleasure from life. Quite the contrary is true. It does inculcate thoughts and principles of a serious and important nature. But in doing so it promotes pleasure of the choicest and most enduring variety. It brings mere worldly amusement under due limitation, and employs it chiefly as a relaxation of life.
Religion brings its own pleasure with it. Extirpating nothing innocent, it makes innocence itself a bliss. Discouraging nothing cheerful, it renders cheerfulness itself a common habit by grafting into the heart something to be cheerful over. It regulates the intellectual machinery, gives poise to thought, symmetry to plans, and harmony to purposes.
It enthrones spiritual good as the law of life and imparts qualities of richness, sweetness, and joy to right actions and helpful words. It promotes longevity by inculcating temperate habits and proper care of all the physical organs and powers. It imparts correct and healthful views to our earthly existence by teaching that every creature of God is good, and nothing to be despised, and that it is the privilege of all believers to use this world as not abusing it. It is the normal condition of complete being.
Sin gives no real advantage to anyone, but holiness does. Sin destroys. It mars perfection. It clogs aspiration. It cripples endeavor. Holiness upbuilds. It engenders completeness. It fans legitimate ardor. It crowns all laudable effort with true success. Paul embodied common sense and true philosophy in his beautiful statement that "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (1 Timothy 4:8).
What Religion Does
It is a mistake to suppose that religion is designed to eliminate pleasure from life. Quite the contrary is true. It does inculcate thoughts and principles of a serious and important nature. But in doing so it promotes pleasure of the choicest and most enduring variety. It brings mere worldly amusement under due limitation, and employs it chiefly as a relaxation of life.
Religion brings its own pleasure with it. Extirpating nothing innocent, it makes innocence itself a bliss. Discouraging nothing cheerful, it renders cheerfulness itself a common habit by grafting into the heart something to be cheerful over. It regulates the intellectual machinery, gives poise to thought, symmetry to plans, and harmony to purposes.
It enthrones spiritual good as the law of life and imparts qualities of richness, sweetness, and joy to right actions and helpful words. It promotes longevity by inculcating temperate habits and proper care of all the physical organs and powers. It imparts correct and healthful views to our earthly existence by teaching that every creature of God is good, and nothing to be despised, and that it is the privilege of all believers to use this world as not abusing it. It is the normal condition of complete being.
Sin gives no real advantage to anyone, but holiness does. Sin destroys. It mars perfection. It clogs aspiration. It cripples endeavor. Holiness upbuilds. It engenders completeness. It fans legitimate ardor. It crowns all laudable effort with true success. Paul embodied common sense and true philosophy in his beautiful statement that "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (1 Timothy 4:8).
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