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IN a very wonderful chapter, the second chapter of First Corinthians, St. Paul sets forth a fundamental truth of Christian Science.

There was a wealth of wisdom in the counsel of Solon, the Greek lawgiver, "Know thyself. " The so-called self-consciousness which we find in the world takes a variety of forms, such as self-love, self-will, self-justification, self-pity, etc.

The recollection of a sentry patroling his post and giving his challenge, "Halt! Who goes there?" when some indiscernible form looms up in the darkness, has impressed me while guarding against error. The great Commander-in-Chief of the spiritual forces has charged us, "What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch," and this command, appearing under the heading of the Christian Science Sentinel every week, reiterates an instruction which is the most important that the Christian soldier needs to bear in mind.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Has been exposed to a great deal of violent criticism, which analysis shows to have been based upon a partial or complete misunderstanding of the subject. "A little learning is a dangerous thing," and the critics of Christian Science for the most part have given this profound and infinite theme only a cursory examination, and then have rushed in where angels, knowing better, would not dare to tread.

HOW much do we possess? How much do we own? Just what we use, and not one whit more. This may seem a paradox when applied to material things; but, pursued to the last analysis, the seeming paradox disappears and the seed-truth becomes revealed, for in the last analysis the proposition deals with us exclusively as individuals, and has nothing to do with such incidents as legacies or inheritances.

Between the miraculous works of production," reproduction, and healing, performed by the prophets, by Jesus, and his disciples, and the utility of these works to all races for whose redemption they were performed, theology leaves much unreconciled. Its most familiar claim to incompatibility to-day, lies in a remonstrance that the works of Jesus were for a peculiar people of a peculiar period, leaving to the modern disciple, if it were possible, only the wind-shaken reed of Scriptural figure, without the vital, scientific fact.

TO learn how to pray aright is to learn the secret of all Christian success. The problems of evil—sin, disease, sorrow, misfortune, and want—confront mortals at every turn, and their right solution, which will enable men to erase these conditions from consciousness, involves the true understanding and practice of prayer, not as a blind hope nor as the homage of superstitious fear, but as the application of the Christ-truth in correcting human error.

It may be objected that this is an unseasonable time. to comment upon Christmas giving, but that the season is not fully passed is amply attested by the little "reminders" that continually drift in from the first to the tenth of January.

One of the leading elders in the church of Dr. Coyle, a recent moderator of our General Assembly, told me the most remarkable thing he has ever had to reckon with is the rapid growth in Denver of the Christian Scientists.

The writings of the apostle Paul make special appeal to the student of Christian Science on account of the purely metaphysical character of many of his statements. They do not seem as difficult and confusing as they did when we had no knowledge of the truth as revealed in our text-book, Science and Health.