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We believe that selfishness can be cured only by religion —by a social religion, the aim of which is not to land the believer in heaven but to reform human nature upon earth. Religion has never fairly set itself to that direct object, though incidentally it has done much to promote it, often without intending it, and sometimes in spite of its own dogmatic precepts.

IN one of those inimitable essays which keep bright the memory of a radiant and dauntless personality, Stevenson decries the idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbor good. "One person," he says, "I have to make good: myself.

THE Scriptures refer to human existence as a sleep or dream, which evidently implies that so-called life in matter is an abnormal state of thought, in which the normal conditions of being are not cognized and from which mortals must awake to become conscious of man's spiritual identity and dominion as the child of God. David must have realized this when he wrote, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness;" and Tolstoi evidently caught a glimpse of the same truth when he said, as recently reported, that he looked upon this life as but one of many dreams.

MRS. EDDY tells us that "Christian scientific practice begins with Christ's key-note of harmony, 'Be not afraid'" (Science and Health, p.

NO one who has studied natural science, even in the most elementary way, can fail to be struck by the fact that one by one various theories have been put forward by human ingenuity to account for the relation and interaction of the constituents of the material universe and that one by one these theories have been discredited and destroyed by the light of discovery and experimental research. Paul was well aware of this when he said, "Whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

There certainly was not a time when God was not the Father. Neither, indeed, as though He had not brought forth these things, did God afterward beget the Son, but because the Son has existence not from himself, but from the Father.

THE paths by which people come to Christian Science are almost as varied as the individuals who come. Two general types were pointed out by Jesus in the parable of the hid treasure and the pearl of great price.

IT may not be generally known that the probable origin of our present public school system of education in the United States is a statute which dates back to 1642 when the General Court of the State of Massachusetts ordered that children should be brought up to learning and labor, and imposed fines upon parents and others who neglected their duty in these particulars. Of greater significance, however, was the statute of 1647, in which the statement is made that "in order to thwart the designs of that old deluder, Satan, every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read.

IN the fifth chapter of Judges it is written, "Arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive;" while in his letter to the Ephesians Paul says of Christ Jesus, "When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. " Nothing more majestic than this statement can be found in the elder Scriptures, nothing more inspiring, save the words of Christ Jesus, has been uttered in all history.

WE who have been Christian Scientists for a number of years are apt to assume that all thinking and intelligent people are more or less familiar with the teachings, methods, and works of Christian Science. Because of this, we wonder why any class of people who have the good of humanity at heart should oppose the teachings, methods, and works of our movement.