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IN obeying the promptings to think or act wickedly, that appear to spring from within themselves, mortals become victims of the false sense which they entertain of God as having created man upon a sinful basis ; that is, with natural proclivities for evil. This belief, which has been perpetuated throughout the human order of generation, leads them to regard their idiosyncrasies of disposition, defects of character, or faults of temperament as inherent in their individuality or identity.

Editorial Note . — While it is never an easy matter to arrive at an impartial, unprejudiced opinion upon any subject, the case of Christian Science presents some peculiar difficulties.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving from all risk of crankiness, than business. —Lowell.

For many years I was a member of an orthodox church, and a great part of the time I was a devoted student of the Bible, but during certain periods when I was consciously continuing in sin, I was unable to read it. The deep, metaphysical parts had appealed to me most strongly, and upon my coming to Christian Science, it awakened in me a hope for early and complete freedom from all the impediments of the flesh.

Love is the liberator. — Science and Health, p.

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Byron Although "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

It is calumny on Christian Science to say that man is aroused to thought or action only by ease, pleasure, or recompense. Something higher, nobler, more imperative, impels the impulse of Soul.

IT was house-cleaning time, and furniture and bric-a-brac had been crowded on the porch in order that the new broom might reach every nook and cranny of the cottage home. Soon there was a great commotion in the front yard.

HOW often humanity, in its perplexity and its pain, has questioned thus: Is there a God? and where and what is He? Atheists have replied that there is none; while scholastic theology sometimes teaches that there is a God in heaven who permits evil for a wise purpose. Thus the human heart has cherished within itself atheistic and rebellious thoughts, or else it has cultivated a spirit of resignation to suffering that might legitimately have been avoided.

WE discourse with great glibness upon the achievements of physical science in modern times, and by taking pretty much everything for granted we manage to make ourselves comfortable and avoid many troublesome questions which might otherwise obtrude themselves on our attention in a manner that is neither very soothing to our vanity nor, indeed, very reassuring to our intelligence. To be sure, these questions, or many of them, are as old as reflective thought itself.