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NO one can become acquainted with the leading events of St. Paul's life without realizing that it constitutes an epic of splendid mold.

I HAVE been more and more impressed recently, in my study of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works, particularly Science and Health, with the thought of how very necessary it is for all Christian Scientists to gain some comprehension of the humanity of the man Jesus, in order to understand how to heal the sick, reform the sinning, and uplift and encourage the sorrowing.

HUMAN history stands for humanadvance. There never has been, there never can be, a backward step.

To the beginner in Christian Science, the method of procedure is as new and novel as is the method of the primary grade to the child just entering on his school career. The child's first glimpse of this new phase of life awes and mystifies him.

THE truth is simple. Untruth is always complicated and elusive, and grows more and more so with attempts to make use of it and to place dependence upon it.

WHEN I first attended a Christian Science church, I was surprised to hear people testify of their gratitude to Christian Science for giving them the Bible. I had been a reader of the Bible from childhood, and found so much in it to delight and to help me, that I felt very sorry for people who had been so long deprived of its beauty and assistance.

The judge who, unsupported by precedent, must bear the whole responsibility of a decision, must be of those who cannot sin. Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect.

THE earnest seeker for religious truth believes that he is justly entitled to whatever there is in another's faith that will increase his faith; he feels that he has a right to know what there is in another's life that will help him to live a better life. Since truth is one and universal, belonging to no person or class of persons to the exclusion of others, the grateful recipient of good rejoices that he is able to impart to others somewhat of that which has ennobled and blessed his life.

NO greater problems have been weighed in human thought than those concerning man's origin and destiny. These problems have possessed an imperishable interest for all peoples and during all ages known to history.

A WISE proverb says, "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him;" and in Psalms we read that those who shall abide in God's tabernacle, God's holy hill, are those who backbite not with the tongue, nor take up a reproach against a neighbor. The apostle James writes, "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body ;" and again, "Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.