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Critics of Christian Science, who think too deeply to dispute the Christian Scientist's views of matter, but who do not think deeply enough to accept his affirmations regarding Mind, occasionally try to obscure their logically indefensible opposition to Christian Science by declaring that Christian Scientists are narrow. The reasons advanced to support this allegation are two: First, that Christian Scientists as a class do not participate in sociological, philosophical, or reformatory experiments; second, that they do not study or even habitually read promiscuous literature, but seek the rather to follow the injunction.

Christian Science has been widely discussed and criticised, more or less kindly and unkindly, but those who have undertaken to antagonize it have overlooked the paramount fact concerning the subject; namely, that it is a matter of experiment rather than of controversy. No one is properly equipped for the discussion of any scientific subject unless he has himself demonstrated its statements.

Once upon a time, there lived in a country village a man with the untroubled eyes and placid smile of a little child. The villagers called him in their quaint parlance "a natural.

Belief , in ordinary usage, means mental assent on grounds other than direct personal knowledge, insight, or complete demonstration. It admits of every degree of conviction from the feeblest to the very strongest (Century Dictionary).

The Apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, states, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. " Throughout the centuries of Christian history, as through the greater part of the history of the early Jews, the Scriptures have ever been of wonderful import and of vital significance to every devout truth seeker.

The Psalmist sang, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. " Our Saviour, the "Prince of peace," knowing what must be accomplished before this realization was possible, said, "I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Every mortal is troubled with many and various anxieties, and yet all desire, through various paths, to arrive at one goal; that is, they strive by different means to attain one happiness: in a word, God. He is the beginning and the end of every good, and He is the highest happiness.

At the time of the Saviour's birth, the shepherds, watching their flocks on the Judæan hillsides, heard the angelic message, "Fear not for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people"—and the heavenly host, uniting in the strain, sang, "On earth peace, good will toward men. " Thus is the advent of the spiritual idea ever heralded, as it comes afresh to human thought.

REV. MARY BAKER G.

The long accepted theory that the kingdom of heaven is a place, and that no one can ever enter this sacred domain until after death, is rapidly yielding to more enlightened views upon this most important subject. In the light of Christian Science it seems passing strange that we should have read our Bibles for years and yet have felt satisfied with such an untenable theory, a theory not supported by even the letter of Scripture.