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IN a conversation with my husband last evening, a retrospective train of thought was set in motion which has suggested the material for this article. He said, "Why do not Christian Scientists heal every disease instantaneously? If, as they say, God is the healer and He is omnipotent, it must be that they themselves lack faith; if their faith were sufficient I believe they could.

THE keynote of success in Christian Science is constant, prayerful watchfulness. By this, is meant watchfulness in its highest meaning, not mere watchfulness of your neighbor, your friends, your supposed enemy, or your brother Scientist, but a careful watchfulness of self, a guarding of thought, a carefulness to exclude from consciousness every thought that maketh or worketh a lie.

EACH and every mortal is in pursuit of peace and happiness, no matter what his ambitions and desires may be. I have been no exception, for I have drunk at almost every fountain of so-called pleasure.

AFTER the crucifixion of Jesus, early in the morning of the third day, two women with sad hearts and bearing in their hands sweet spices, started on a mission of love,—the anointing of their dearest friend and benefactor. This seemed to them to be the last and only physical way they could express their gratitude to one whose life had been devoted to leading into light, liberty, and love, the great mass of suffering humanity.

AS Christian Scientists, we all acknowledge that 'Jesus Christ was the highest manifestation of manhood. To him we are indebted for the Lord's Prayer, which is the sacred prayer of all Christendom.

I make the statement boldly, without fear of contradiction, that every person when seriously ill desires to have the services of the best healer obtainable. How are we to judge? The most feasible way, it seems to me, is to ascertain what system of healing is furnishing the most satisfactory results from the application of its rules and laws in the treatment of disease.

ONE night I went early to an orchestral concert and, as I sat waiting, the members of the orchestra filed in and began to tune their instruments all at the same time. The result was most discordant, and if I had not known the meaning of it all, I should have run away.

The ark of God was never taken till it was surrounded by the arms of earthly defenders. In captivity, its sanctity was sufficient to vindicate it from insult, and to lay the hostile fiend prostrate on the threshold of his own temple.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is a deep and sacred subject; the deepest and most sacred that can occupy human thought and purpose, for it treats of God, man, and the universe. It teaches God's omnipotence, His omnipresence and His omniscience.

I HAVE come to talk of him who was and is the Wayshower to that sublime rest that remaineth to the people of God; and of that freedom which is purchased by the conquest of sin—the freedom of the sons of God. Christian Science comes to every community with an olive branch.