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A few weeks ago I met a very intelligent Indian chief. I had met him once before in Oshkosh, Wis.

Many and many a time that little sentence has lifted the burden of a seeming drudgery for me, transforming the task into the brightest and most joyous doing. We sometimes seem to forget that Principle is Love.

Do we as children of one Father believe in God, or do our lives practically deny the words our lips have uttered for generations past? The Scripture declares that "with God all things are possible. " This either means that God possesses all power, "supplies all our need," or that there is no hope or comfort in God.

In Science and Health Church is defined as "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from Principle. " In studying the Bible Lessons of the past winter, we find almost startling applications to our present state of thought in reference to the Church.

While going through a course of instruction, a great truth was revealed to me so plainly, that I send it to the Journal, hoping it may help some one else on, in the way "from earth to Heaven," as it did me. I had considerable knowledge of Christian Science before entering a class, for I had earnestly studied the pages of Science and Health, and attended the meetings held in our city by a lady Christian Scientist, a woman expressing a true Christian spirit; and it was under her instruction that I placed myself.

"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!" This is as direct a command to us now, as it was to those to whom John spoke. We are to behold, or discern, that which will "take away the sin of the world.

The so-called reform movements do not accomplish that which they aim at, simply because they deal with effects, not causes. The existing state of affairs is of itself an effect.

What is it to be cleansed? Christian Science teaches that to be cleansed is to be free from false sense, sin or self. But in order to be free from these errors we must first know what they are.

Are angels realities? Science and Health explains that "they are pure thoughts from God. " Without question God's thoughts are real, and as such angels or "messages" have each an identity by which we may know one from another, as we know our friends in this mortal life.

What would our lives be if we were absolutely free from fear, fear for ourselves, and what is worse still, for all of us who are not wholly selfish, fear for those dearest to us? Are we fully conscious how utterly we are under subjection to this yoke of bondage, this law of fear? Not till we apprehend the glorious Truth as set forth in Christian Science do we realize that this heavy burden can be lifted, that it is not necessary for us to be the abject slaves of a supposed power, a dreaded, though unseen, tyrant who robs us of all sense of rest and freedom. We have most of us doubtless been more or less readers of the Bible.