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The tenor of the Word shows that the supreme, creative, active power is a perfect God. If we believe and understand the Scriptures we shall know that the terms omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence apply to this infinite creative power; and since we know there can be no creation, expression, or action without intelligence, all will readily admit the synonym of Intelligence, Mind, to be applicable to Deity.

My beloved church will not receive a Message from me this summer. For my annual Message is swallowed up in sundries already given out.

This was an emphatic rule of St. Paul: "Behold, now is the accepted time.

IN giving my testimony for Christian Science I do so with a sense of great gratitude, and I hope these lines will be read by some one who is out of the Ark of Safety but wishes to enter this haven which is open to all. Mine is a simple story, telling how God in His goodness changed my revengeful thoughts; and by drawing closer to the understanding of Him, I became full of love and forgiveness.

THERE are no words, or aggregations of words, marshalled into splendid array by the king of writers, written and rewritten a thousand times to polish, beautify, and bring forth their fullest meaning, which can completely describe the love, worth, and greatness of that man who walked, talked, and wrought by the beautiful waters of historic Galilee. The prophets had vied with one another in endeavoring to describe him who was to come, but so poorly did they portray his real nature that, largely, the people failed to see in him who wrought so wondrously, the Christ for whom they had been looking, longing, and waiting.

" BE ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. " Webster defines reasonableness as "agreeableness to reason; that state or quality of a thing which reason supports or justifies.

PROGRESS is born of freedom, of the untrammeled spirit of inquiry and adventure. Oliver Wendell Holmes gave eloquent utterance to this thought in these words:— Build thee more stately mansions.

The yearning for a belief is not belief. In order to be a religious poet, it is not enough, in my eyes at least, to cry "Lord! Lord!" to lie prostrate before God, and with the head in the dust, to confess His infinite power.

FROM the earliest recorded ages, man has found himself restless and dissatisfied with himself and his surroundings, always striving to attain to the unattainable,— the peace which passeth understanding. Some have known that all which is within the grasp of mortal man is vanity and vexation of spirit; others have imagined that they would be satisfied if they were differently circumstanced.

WE are impressed with the beauty of Isaiah's prophecy forecasting the gentle, loving, compassionate manner of the appearing of Christ, the spiritual idea of Life. "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.