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AS awakened thought begins to grasp the teachings of Christian Science and we try to put them into practice, we soon discern the vast difference between the realities of being and the lives that we are living, and there springs up a great longing to free ourselves from the fetters of materiality, that we may enter at once upon a purely spiritual life. Though we may be very earnest and sincere in our efforts to accomplish this, yet there lies right here the danger of a grave mistake.

"And I sought, whence is evil: I set before the eye of my spirit the whole creation: whatsoever we see therein,— sea, earth, air, stars, trees, mortal creatures,—yea, whatsoever there is we do not see,—angels and spiritual powers. Where is evil, and whence comes it, since God the good hath created all things? Why made He anything at all of evil, and not rather by His almightiness cause it not to be? These thoughts I turned in my miserable heart, overcharged with most annoying cares.

AN instructor at Harvard once said to the writer that, if Christian Science is true, the past as well as the present and the future will be redeemed. The truth, the large implications, and the beneficence of this perception have been dawning and unfolding ever since.

ECONOMIC questions of demand and supply are fundamental to human existence. The problem of "getting a living," in one form or another, confronts every member of the human family.

THE Christian paradox, "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it," has a new and practical meaning for the student of divine metaphysics. He has emerged from the terrifying belief that it is possible to lose something that God has given him.

THANKFULNESS is necessary to a man's spiritual growth. To be thankful is to be thoughtful.

In his essay on William Pitt, Macaulay says, "The correctness of his private life added much to the dignity of his public character. " He might have added, "and to the efficiency of his public life.

JOHN says: "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

USUALLY it is not difficult for a patient to see that unbelief, lack of understanding, sin, doubt, discouragement, fear, and lack of application tend to retard or prevent healing in Christian Science. But there are hindrances of another class which stand in the way of the desired end, and which are usually more difficult for the patient to discern.

The apostle Paul has said, "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. '' Heaven is harmony; a state or condition of peace, joy, health, happiness.