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Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. II.

In Isaiah 19:13 , we read: "In that day shall five cities speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts. " As Christian Scientists we waste a good deal of time, to mortal sense, in quibbling about words.

Jesus came down from the mountain to teach the multitude; but, he brought with him, from the heights, a breath of pure air that was life-giving to all who came near enough to inhale it. While we need, oft, to go up into the mountain, we too must come down to the multitudes, and lead them to the Father both by precept and example—by letting them see that we are "tempted in all points" like as they are, and, through the keeping of his sayings, are overcoming daily.

Have you ever pictured to yourself this earth as it would now appear had Jesus been accepted as its rightful king; as it would appear had Jerusalem known the things belonging "unto her peace;" had our Saviour's triumphal entry within her gates been the prelude to his coronation in the hearts of men? If all this had been, instead of the fulfilment of those words so fraught with human woe for over eighteen hundred centuries! "He came unto his own, and his own received him not. " Reverse the situation as it appears to sense; eliminate the scourge, the crown of thorns, and Calvary; crown and enthrone the Messiah; and finite thought fails to grasp the blessedness and glory of earth redeemed as our Master could and would have redeemed it, by the power of His Word, from its bondage of sinful sense.

" For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

" Blessed are they that come up through great tribulations;" that is, if they come up, and do not bend or sink down under them. All the promises are to those who overcome—who overcome evil with Good.

"How did you happen to become a Christian Scientist?" This question has been so often propounded to me, and I myself have been so helped and strengthened by the experiences of others, that I am led to give, through the columns of our Journal, something of my own experience in coming into this beautiful Truth; trusting that it may be, to some in need, "the word in season. " Educated (religiously) in the Methodist church, of which my mother was for many years a member, I early endeavored to find there the spiritual rest and peace for which I longed.

Brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath rehearsed how first God did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After these things I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from the beginning of the world.

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us. Acts xvii.

Thy following demonstrations are in line with the thought suggested by your statement in Science and Health, page 473, fifty eighth edition: "If the Science of Life were understood, it would be found that the senses of Mind are never lost, and that matter has no sensation. Then the human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster's claw,—not with an artificial limb, but with the genuine one.