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IF we literally accept the account given in the second and third chapters of Genesis as a statement of facts which actually occurred, what conclusions as to the nature of God should we derive therefrom? First: that He engendered in man the capacity to sin, which presupposes a taste and inclination for sin; Second: that He made him blind to the nature of temptation; Third: that God Himself assisted in tempting man by putting "The Tree of Knowledge" into the garden and creating a talking serpent, which was the instrument for tempting man, who was perfectly innocent and quite unable to prevent being endowed with such weakness and imperfection of character. Can we believe all this of a just and merciful God? of a loving Father such as Jesus taught us to regard Him? No human parent with a trace of love would act in that way towards innocent, helpless creatures.

FOR some time I have been deeply impressed with the wonderful progress our Cause is making in the world, and, as a student of Christian Science, I take a vast deal of pleasure in noting some of the many marvelous changes that have taken place in the universal thought, in regard to Christian Science, in the past eight or nine years, during which time I have been an interested and persistent investigator. Some of these changes in public opinion are very interesting to Scientists, and point conclusively to the fact that the Christian Science leaven of Truth and Love is surely leavening the religious thought of our country and, I might say, of the whole civilized world.

MAN'S rightful attitude towards his fellow-man has remained an unsolved problem in all human history. Selfishness, harder than adamant and more pitiless, blocks every entrance to human hearts, and only the "solvent of Love" can remove it and liberate mortals.

The declaration of Christian Science that all evil and its consequences,— sin. sickness, and death,— are unreal, rightly understood is the basis of all Mind-healing, misunderstood it is frequently perverted into expressions such as these, "You merely think you are sick," "It is all your imagination.

THE Field may be interested to hear what is being done at our Alpine outpost of Christian Science. The news of the newly risen Christ was first heard in this city about the year 1896 by way of correspondence, and several people became interested.

ALL the logic and reason of the ages concerning Life and Being, is valueless unless its superstructure is based upon divine revelation. In the divine order of revelation, the world, at this stage of progress, is indebted to Christian Science, as revealed in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G.

Toward the close of one of our Wednesday evening meetings a gentleman rose saying (I give the substance of his remarks, as I remember them): I am a stranger in your city and not a Christian Scientist. I am much impressed by this large attendance on such an oppressively warm evening; also by the evident sincerity and enthusiasm of those who have spoken.

PAUL says, "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. " Even a slight understanding of Christian Science changes the thought which we bring to the solution of our problems.

In relating my experience, I know I am telling you nothing new, doubtless you have all heard it before from other sources, yet it will bear repeating, because it is the sweetest story ever told, the story of the prodigal's return, —a son reclaimed, a new tenant in the House of God. My embrace of the teachings of Christian Science was not brought about by the healing of anv of the so-called physical infirmities to which flesh is supposed to be heir.

HAVING been brought up in the Jewish faith, and having come to know something of Christian Science after being bitterly antagonistic to what I thought it was, I am becoming, day by day, more and more convinced of the great good to humanity daily accomplished through the proper understanding of Christian Science, as set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy.