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It is not easy, speedily to bring into the right way the man who has a long time previously been held fast by error. It may, however, be effected; for, when a man turns away ever so little from error, the mention of the truth is acceptable to him.

" To rejoice evermore" and "in everything give thanks" is, from the human point of view, a well-nigh impossible undertaking. Mortal man is sometimes heard to say that if he had no more to contend with than do most of his acquaintances, it would be a comparatively easy matter for him to rejoice and give thanks.

Critics of Christian Science have sometimes taken exception to the use of the term Science in this connection, on the ground that the adherents of this system refuse to submit its practical operations in the healing of disease to the test of clinical observation and experimentation, conducted in accordance with the requirements of the so-called "laboratory method" of research. That the great bulk of human learning has ever been uncertain and transient will be admitted by every student of the history of thought, for not only have standards of scholarship and criteria of knowledge undergone constant modification, but at intervals they have suffered the most radical and revolutionary departures.

Christ Jesus said that "no man can serve two masters,"and in Science and Health(p. 182) we read that "we cannot obey both physiology and Spirit.

Suppose some of us to be suffering from fatigue, pain, or any inaction or abnormal action of our so called material bodies suppositionally controlled by physical law. Suppose that instead of taking medicine or resorting to any other material remedy, we decide to confine ourselves to the realization of the truth of certain ideas.

[The interesting article which follows gives the experience of Eldress Anna White and her healing in Christian Science. While it is written from the view-point of herself and her friend, it shows how a sincere desire for the truth leads to the understanding of divine Principle as revealed in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

St. Paul tells us "that all things work together for good to them that love God.

On Oct. 22, 1907, Francis J.

[The following article by Mrs. Eddy, mention of which was made in the Christian Science Sentinel of Nov.

When the student of Christian Science, hitherto not overly familiar with the Bible, grasps the fact that the healing truth which comes to this age through our Leader's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was manifested to the first century through Jesus, he begins to ponder over the life and works and words of the one who demonstrated this Science of being for all time, and wonders at the fewness of the utterances of Christ Jesus which we possess. We are assured that he gave the seeking and receptive thought of his day all it could assimilate, and he must have been sought of many for the words of help and wisdom which fell from his lips.