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I remember that once a man came to our house red with wrath. He was boiling over with rage.

A CRITICISM once passed upon the hymn so much in favor with Christian Scientists, written by the Leader of this world-reaching movement, reminds us that there are two modes of judging. The true critic is, as the name implies, a judge; he intends to take the impartial view and to balance wisely the merit and demerit of the matter in hand, aiming to make manifest, if he can, the saving good.

SOME years ago, when I began attending the Christian Science church. I carried to the services a heavy heart full of fear and sorrow.

EVERY Sunday in the churches of Christendom millions of prayers are offered to God, covering every phase of want and woe that mortals experience. This goes on year after year, it has gone on for centuries, and yet the grim hosts of evil work their will among the sons of men, desolating earth with suffering and wrong.

VARYING opinions have obtained among Christian scholars in all ages as to the character and value of the service philosophy has rendered the human mind in its effort to attain to absolute truth. Philosophy is the imperial highway along which the pagan intellect has marched with its most stately tread and along which are to be found the memorials of its greatest achievements.

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From time to time, during the last decade or two, there have been frequent attempts to legislate against Christian Science. These efforts to invoke the machinery of government on behalf of those who, for various reasons, opposed the practice of Christian Science, have not been confined to one section of the country.

The theory of evolution has been quite generally accepted, judging from the quantity of literature supporting it. Human thought pauses, however, puzzled in its effort to find perfect order and development in matter, and confesses to failure in locating the "missing link" which would finally unite man to the material atom.