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Each year the summer vacation season reminds me of some experiences of mine seven years ago. From years of shop life, an outing had come to mean the getting away as far as possible from everything that would suggest the routine of daily work, and being just as free from physical or mental exertion as inclination might prompt.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE , in its application to the affairs of mankind, demands just such exactness in its practice as does any other science, law, or form of government. To become a Christian Scientist means to submit so unreservedly to Divine law, that this law, in its operation, shall tend continually to govern, to adjust, to purify, and to redeem the personal life, in its every minute detail.

MAN is more than physical sense can outline or describe. We may enumerate all the organs or divisions of the human body, and yet include nothing essential to immortality or to real manhood.

The coming of the Jewish people to Christian Science is a phenomenon whose profound significance is perhaps only half guessed by Christian Scientists themselves. His attention being arrested by the indubitable healing, the avowedly rational Hebrew is irresistibly attracted by the logical perfection of the Science.

A Few years ago I entered an art school in Paris as a beginner, with high hopes and an earnest desire to make rapid progress. About thirty students gathered around the model each day, and worked at drawing or painting with varying degrees of earnestness and from many different motives.

Our Master, Christ Jesus, frequently led his disciples away from the curious, watching, perhaps carping throngs that followed them, and retired with them to the "wilderness," the open, uninhabited land by the sea or among the hills, where, unchecked by scribe and Pharisee, he could freely open up the treasures of the Father's love to those whom he had chosen for himself from among the simple and lowly. Through Christian Science we come to understand what this wilderness means: "Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule wherein a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence" (Science and Health, p.

Some time ago my attention was drawn to the statement, "Reputation is not character," and the words made a lasting impression upon me. Many people confuse the one with the other, but there is a vast difference between them.

We may receive much benefit from simply reading the Lesson-Sermons, but a time will come to each when he must not only read but study them, and then practise each lesson as it is learned. I was teaching a small country school in a foreign settlement, and one morning, a little girl presented me with two needles.

Eternity , infinity, and unity constitute the three dimensions of the Church or body of Christ. The first element of extension is linear, and as applied to the church suggests the idea of time, without beginning and without end.

To those who are trying to make the demonstration over distasteful characteristics of temperament, I would like to tell how I was greatly helped along this line. Only those who have fallen under the law of a quick temper can appreciate or understand the overcoming struggle, and what it means to tone the impulse down, so that the thought of quietness and gentleness may constantly express not only love to God but to mankind.