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Evidence that Christian Science has a practical value in reformatory and prison work has recently come to light through a letter received by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy from Rudolph Knur, a beneficiary of Christian Science in the state prison at Canon City, Col.

The New Testament is full of references to faith as the foundation of righteousness and a power for the accomplishment of good. The same is true of our Leader's great commentary on the Bible, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

The Old Testament being a history of the process of the establishment in the minds of men, through signs and wonders and great deliverances, of the existence of a supreme and omnipotent creator, so in the New Testament, in the life and words of Jesus the Christ, is written an unfolding vision of Truth and the unknown things of God, which yields its secret perfume to each successive mount of spiritual growth or achievement, until at last, as an unfolding rose bares its heart, so to the eyes of the seeker is laid bare the heart of the divine compassionate Father, and the truth-seeker realizes that which has heretofore been unknown to him, or but faintly perceived,—that in Christ Jesus we have beheld the Father,—a perception of that Truth, that incomprehensible, that unbelievable Love and mercy and compassion which they of his day were not able to bear. Are we, indeed, fully able? The God of Jesus' teaching and demonstration in the healing of disease and the forgiveness of sin, was a God of such divine effulgence and mercy and love that the materialistic Pharisees could not bear the concept.

Once there was a mighty lord, the master of a great estate, the ruler of many people. Daily, as he passed among them, he saw that some of them were poor and wretched, and some of them were rich and wretched, and he spent much time in thought about it, because his heart was tender toward them.

A thorough investigation of Christian Science by one who is not a Christian Scientist is no light undertaking. It would be an easy task if the investigator's equipment were but the narrow intellectualism with which many even brilliant men have approached it.

There is healing, purification, strength, peace, and joy in reformation, but what is it to be reformed? Reformation is the taking up of the cross: it is the going through Gethsemane: it is the climbing of Calvary; it is the overcoming of all materiality: it is the way that leads to the understanding of God, when we shall see Him as He is. Our revered Leader says (Science and Health, p.

The Scriptures are indeed rich in simple metaphors that are well designed to illustrate to every grade of human consciousness the right way out of the bondage of material sense into heaven,—into "the glorious liberty of the children of God" which Mrs. Eddy has taught us is the spiritual sense of life or being.

That a man may choose for himself, here and now, a life to which no death can come, is not a commonly accepted thought. Death is regarded as one of the certain things in one's history; so much so that the few recorded instances of its escape by man born of woman are looked upon with much incredulity by the world at large.

One who has touched the hem of Christ's spotless garment in Christian Science begins to realize how much time and thought are bestowed upon the vanities of this world rather than upon those things which make for righteousness, peace, and health among men. He becomes painfully aware of the time spent in thinking and talking upon the too familiar subject of sickness, and he strives as never before to keep his own thoughts and conversation in Christ, Truth.

THE great Teacher of jurisprudence, the Prophet of Nazareth, Christ Jesus, positively commanded, "Judge not. " For this rule of human life there must evidently have been and still must be a great need, or the command would never have been given, for he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.