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IN mercy to mortals, Love's unfoldings of the truth come gradually to the understanding. When the spiritual senses are opened to discern this orderly process, statements of this truth are more easily accepted and assimilated.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT this afternoon [April 2] made a short speech to the North Carolina Peace Society, with headquarters at Wilmington, N. C.

FOR many years I have prayed daily that there be no more war, no more barbarous slaughtering of our fellow-beings; prayed that all the peoples on earth and the islands of the sea have one God, one Mind; love God supremely, and love their neighbor as themselves. National disagreements can be, and should be, arbitrated wisely, fairly; and fully settled.

THE "childish things" which Paul tells us he put away when he became a man, certainly did not include the childlike attitude of mind which Jesus declared necessary to the attainment of the kingdom of heaven. We use the words childish and childlike with almost opposite meanings.

THE man was huddled in the gloom of depression, enveloped in the darkness of the room. Internally and externally were depths of darkness; the uselessness of human effort, the feebleness of good, the solidity of evil, the why of it all,— Was the game worth the playing? the race worth the running? Nay! who could say yes? He wearily yet impatiently removed his head from his hands, and flung himself back in his chair.

WE hear many testimonies at the Wednesday evening meetings which tell of the hopelessness of the speakers before coming into Christian Science. It is one of the greatest of the works of Christian Science to restore this lost hope by bringing to the sinful and suffering the understanding that all help is in God, and the knowledge that with such omnipotent help, always and everywhere present, none need be without hope.

THE first chapter of Genesis reveals that God is cause,—"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " The full revelation or discernment of Truth announced by Jesus, was prophetically outlined in the book of Revelation, which similarly proclaims God as cause — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

The Master said, "I am meek and lowly in heart. " and St.

" WHAT a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!" Thus Shakespeare; while Mrs. Eddy writes, "The admission to one's self that man is God's own likeness sets one free to master the infinite idea.

WHAT is called worldly wisdom says that a knowledge of evil is essential to a proper knowledge of good; also, that good and evil coexist in primal forms, because nearly if not every identity in the material world in some degree manifests both good and evil. The serpent (or Satan) first announced the theory of dual nature in the garden of Eden, declaring that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought forth fruit that made its partakers wise.