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In thinking over our Leader's manifestation of love for humanity, one is led to inquire into his own consciousness, and therefrom perchance there comes the revelation of the necessity for a kindred demonstration. We are often led to wonder at and condemn the crass blindness of the disciples of Jesus, but sometimes one thinks that perhaps his own inability to grasp the true meaning of our Leader's injunctions is no less reprehensible than the failure of the Master's followers.

After the wonderful and beautiful object-lesson to the human understanding, in the feeding of the five thousand men, besides women and children,—in which Spirit was shown to be the source of all supply and its measure abundance,—the command was given to "gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. " Like all revelation, this was an adaptation of spiritual truth to the human understanding, and was a result of Jesus' realization of Spirit as substance, the source of all good.

Where , in the old thought, was it possible to place Jesus? Those denominations under whose teaching Jesus has been accepted as both God and man are compelled to say that this is a doctrine which must be accepted and believed by what is styled an act of faith. Its present demonstration is impossible.

Those who seek help in Christian Science will find the 21st chapter of I Chronicles of deep interest; in fact, its opening statement is enough to arrest the attention of any but the most superficial Bible student. "And Satan.

A kindly Christian man writes me that he would like to see a dispassionate and disinterested analysis of the underlying philosophy of Christian Science. It is, however, almost impossible for any one to write a dispassionate and wholly disinterested article on Christian Science in any of its phases, for the writer will probably be an earnest believer in and advocate of Christian Science on the one hand, or a disbeliever and opposed to its philosophy and teachings on the other.

It has been said that "to be great is to be misunderstood. " The reception accorded the great demonstrator of God's power certainly goes to prove the truth of this statement, and noble men and women in all ages, who have had glimpses of the same truth which Jesus taught and demonstrated, who have been inspired with ideals above and contrary to the world's standard of righteousness, and have tried to hand them forth to the world, have been wofully misunderstood and misrepresented by the very ones who should have been their stanchest supporters.

THE one great hindrance to and interference with freedom of action in the physical realm is friction. A very large part of the propelling power necessary to keep machinery in motion is absorbed in overcoming this obstructing force.

AS a general rule men are indebted to their early education, rather than to their conscientious conviction, for their religious beliefs; hence the tenacity with which they often defend untenable positions and illogical deductions, even when proof to the contrary is offered them. Many look with disfavor or discredit upon whatever is not in line with their own views, and, instead of withholding their judgment for an impartial investigation, they are too apt to condemn upon mere rumor or upon their own adverse opinion.

TEN years ago the writer was wandering in a maze of doubt and fear. It was a time of mental perplexity and physical suffering.

THE individual who is animated by one thought which is in advance of his present pursuits, practices, and habits, possesses in this an ideal which inevitably molds his thinking and his living into improved form. A human being who does not perceive something better than his present performance is hardly conceivable, for however far down the mental and moral scale of human living a mortal may be, somewhere and somehow he has heard, or seen, or read that which will lift his thought from the lower level, whensoever he will heed its call.