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THE theological world of thought has held, for many centuries, certain fundamental interpretations of Christ Jesus' life and work which have molded religious teaching in definite directions concerning the vital elements of salvation. Fixed creedal beliefs have placed certain constructions upon certain evident truths, and have declared salvation to be dependent upon the acceptance of whatever specific belief may thereby have been outlined as true.

IT is questionable whether there is anything to be gained by prolonging the discussion of Christian Science on the lines laid down by the writers of the letters which have appeared so far. These writers have not, it now appears, any direct knowledge of the book of which they have constituted themselves critics.

THE wise man said, "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. " Christian Science not only heals the ills of the flesh, but it will lift every curse that was ever (said to be) put upon man.

NOWHERE else as in Christian Science, where God is recognized and acknowledged as the absolute source of all supply, do we find such keen appreciation of the law of compensation. We are all familiar with the old adage, "There is no great loss without some small gain," but we often find a variation of this to be true, that there is no small loss without some great gain.

The Founder of Christian Science, in an editorial in the Christian Science Sentinel of Oct. 19, 1907, bestowed favorable notice upon a picture entitled "The Triumph of Truth over Error," this picture being the first considerable work so far painted with the aim to portray the thought of Christian Science.

MODERN science is wont to trace back its inception to Francis Bacon and his great work, "Instauratio Magna. " He was the occasion rather than the cause of the change in thought that took place, for no great reorganization in the mental world comes suddenly or at the instigation of an individual.

" TO work is to pray," ran the old Latin proverb, but it took Christianity to turn it from a precept into practice. The men who governed the world before the Christian era were commonly mighty hunters before the Lord, and though they might be first-rate fighters of men in war, they were by no means first-rate fishers of men in peace.

PROBABLY no people as a class feel so sure of their ground as do those who apply the physical sciences to earn their daily bread. Whether this application be in the laboratory or in the factory, on the farm or on the ocean, by the learned student or by the simple artisan, with intricate apparatus or with none at all, is of no moment.

A new philosophy invariably produces a new era in literature. In content and in form the new type of literary production is usually so radically different from the established order of things that the innovation is greeted with scathing reviews whenever it makes its appearance in the world of letters.

All believers in the teachings of Jesus the Christ are not only devoted to the idea of one God, as contradistinguished from the heathen belief in "gods many," but they unite, in language, at least, in attributing to Him the qualities of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. If some of the Christian sects do not more than formally ascribe to God the possession of these attributes, it is not because of any misunderstanding of the meaning of the words which characterize them, but because of a failure, which up to forty years ago was practically universal, to follow the well-recognized definitions of those words to the points to which they logically and inevitably lead.