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Off the southern coast of Maine are a number of small islands where sheep are kept. The owners of those sheep live mostly on the mainland, and until recent years neither food nor shelter has been provided for their island flocks.

The Christ idea which heals and saves is always active in human behalf, but "the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. " It is only in the light of Christian Science that we begin to appreciate the vast importance of a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of the word activity.

Faith is a conviction which includes past, present, and future. Faith bases its optimistic hopes for the morrow upon the proven and received blessings of yesterday and to-day.

A Love for nature helps one to understand the many simple and truthful lessons which multiply about the daily pathway, and opens a door through illustration and comparison, much that is of value. As experience enriches individual lives, the simple things of to-day's environment grow deep with meaning, for they bring the quiet assurance that one day, lived in patient obedience to the law of God, is the stepping-stone to another day which must necessarily be blessed and brightened by the faith and endurance of the preceding one.

There is no saying more true than that of the apostle Paul, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. " This divine law of justice is a promise of heaven to those who do good, as well as a warning that discord and suffering await those who do evil.

There are not yet many Christian Scientists who are such because their ancestors were Scientists before them. Most of us were in time past connected with other denominations toward which we yet hold the kindliest feelings.

All giving and receiving is reciprocal; you entertain angels unawares, but they cannot impart more or higher things than you are in a state to receive. But every step of your progress affects the intercourse you hold with all others, elevates its tone, deepens its meaning, sanctifies its spirit; and when time and suffering and self-denial shall have transfigured and glorified this spotted self, you shall find your fellows also transformed, and their faces shall shine upon you with the light of wisdom and the beauty of holiness.

Christian Science , being the Science of harmony, must of necessity relate to every phase of life wherein man seeks the achievement of perfection. Harmony furthers progress, just as a smooth rail facilitates travel.

In accordance with the wish of Mrs. Eddy, the exercises to-day attending the laying of the corner-stone of the beautiful new church edifice, which is her gift to the Concord Christian Scientists, were of a very simple nature.

Zeno, Socrates, and Plato, beacon lights in early Grecian philosophy, originated and adopted the dialectic method of teaching; Jesus used that of illustrating by parable. Unlike those preceding him, the Master was not only profound, but extremely simple.