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What is man's relation to God? Does he bear the same relation to his Creator that he did when God created man in His own image and likeness, or has that relationship changed? If so, what has changed it? Has man fallen from his high estate? Has he lost his God-given heritage? Can he regain that which has been lost? Will he ever become perfect as his Father in heaven is perfect? Questions more vital than these have never been asked. They have to do with the present, as well as the future of man's well-being.

Nineteen hundred years ago, Jesus said, "He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. " Yet for nineteen hundred years since he spoke, and for countless years before, the world has tried to do the very thing he said could not be done.

Years ago, work was begun on a bridge which was to connect two sections of one our large cities; slowly the stone arches were formed, and, as it seemed to onlookers, after a long time the structure was completed which, stretching across a deep gully and high above many lines of railroad tracks, to-day forms a safe and pleasant passageway for pedestrians, and direct communication for transportation and traffic across the city. We stand before a fine painting or piece of sculpture and see the embodiment of an ideal; we read a beautiful poem and find thought wrought into expression, or listen to an artistic rendition of some musical work and trace the development of a lofty conception.

We are glad to publish the following interesting letter and enclosures received from our Leader. That legislatures and courts are thus declaring the liberties of Christian Scientists is most gratifying to our people; not because a favor has been extended, but because their inherent rights are recognized in an official and authoritative manner.

To the Editor. At no better time than now, when the whole country is recognizing the steady progress of Christian Science and admitting its interest in the movement as shown by the fair attitude of the press everywhere, could we ask you to give your readers the following communication.

In the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy, the author, makes the statement that "The central fact of the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power" (p.

As we become more and more interested in Christian Science we may find ourselves more rarely visiting the shelves where former favorites, the works of poets, philosophers, and other thinkers, are kept. We may not feel that these books did not merit the attention bestowed upon them, but their thought can no longer serve as we walk in the radiant light of this new revelation of Truth.

All Christendom unites in believing that the mission of the Master was to bring "on earth peace, good-will toward men. " If we take simply a superficial glance at present existing conditions of life, we might think that men were farther away than ever before from this exalted condition.

To many thinkers the terms prayer and supplication are synonymous, but in the light of Christian Science we find that prayer means that God's will is done, not shall be, and that in supplication we have usually desired our own way, and so have endeavored to instruct God as to what we think necessary. God is the one Mind, the one true thinker, the one Principle or governor, and so we cannot desire Him to do contrary to His divine will.

It is absolutely essential to our highest happiness and success that we learn how to work out our own salvation; which must be both complete and universal. It is just as needful for the sober-headed business man as for the Christian Science practitioner to learn how to work out the problem of salvation.