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INTUITIONS

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. I JOHN iv.

COMFORT

Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem.

THE FUTURE LIFE

To prove that there is an existence beyond the change which we name Death, has always been earnestly desired. Today the world of Christian theology admits that, aside from revelation, there is no absolute proof of a future life, but only cumulative evidence.

JESUS A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST

Broadly defined, Christian Science is living, bringing out in practical demonstration, the Christ-life. Christian Science does away with the vicarious atonement, in so far as it discards the commonly accepted doctrine that the shedding of Jesus' blood paid the penalty for man's transgression, without human work or effort.

PLANET AND SOUL

There are moments, during our present state of existence, when man loses faith in the world. Men cling to the visionary, while the battle of life goes on, with little else to feed upon, — little outside of that which the world offers as a reward for the struggle of years.

MATTER A SHADOW

The answer to the oft-repeated question, Is there no matter? involves another question, What is matter? The word matter is defined, by standard authority, as the material, or substance, out of which any object or thing is made, — substance which changes in form according to the evolution of physical law, as seen in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, in their various stages of birth, growth, and decay. Matter is also spoken of as something which relates to the metaphysical, as well as physical, world.

A common object of affection makes the most common ground of interest and harmony between man and man. People differ more in their opinions and tastes and habits than in their loves.

SCIENCE AND THE SENSES

The National Christian Scientist Association has brought us together to minister and to be ministered unto, to mutually aid one another in finding ways and means for helping the whole human family, to quicken and extend the interest already felt in a higher mode of medicine, to watch with eager joy the individual growth of Christian Scientists, and the progress of our common cause in Chicago, — this miracle of the Occident. We come to strengthen and perpetuate our organizations and institutions, and to find strength in union, — strength to build up, through God's right hand, that pure and undefiled religion whose Science demonstrates God and the perfectibility of man.

ANECDOTE OF FRANKLIN

When quite a youth Franklin went to London, entered a printing-office, and inquired if he could get employment. "Where are you from?" inquired the foreman.

ABUSE OF MENTAL HEALING AND TEACHING

The far-seeing thought of our times is becoming more and more imbued with Christian Science. The pulpit is sounding the depth of its spiritual philosophy.