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Obedience , although universally recognized as the watchword of progress in the line of material effort, is very imperfectly understood in its larger spiritual meaning; and because of this indefinite apprehension, many well-disposed men, like Saul and Marcus Aurelius, have been servants of evil when they thought they were following good. To be obedient is to do right; to do right is to do one's duty, and to do one's duty, according to Scripture, is "to know God," hence, to be truly obedient is "to know God.

It means much to be willing to make our sacrifices to win our way homeward or heavenward. Purity, perfection, virtue, and goodness are realized only through the law of sacrifice.

Aside from the "greater works" of Christian Science in healing sin and sickness, there is probably no one phase of its teaching which is doing more to dignify and ennoble human life, than the elimination from human affairs which it is gradually effecting, and the total annihilation which it promises, of the element of chance, or the purely accidental and casual. That there is such an element playing a large part in our ordinary conduct of affairs, must be apparent to the most superficial observer.

The following question asked by honest investigators, comes often to the ear of the Christian Scientist, "If Christian Science be demonstrable, and if, as you aver, it be the self-same religion practised by Jesus the Christ and by his disciples, why did they not leave to us precise and formulated rules of practice?" To which the Christian Scientist replies: Jesus' teaching was by object-lessons and by word of mouth, and was treasured up and afterwards given to the world by his loving disciples. He did not call upon the scribes to preserve them in archives, but they were allowed to take root and grow in the hearts of his hearers.

Editor of The Macon News. In the issue of your paper of February 3, you publish another sermon by Rev.

From various pulpits and in the press we are being told that Christian Science—the religion in which God is the only healer—is wrong; that it is a mistake to take Bible promises too seriously; that it is folly to draw practical conclusions from the premise of God's allness: that Christ does not heal any more except through drugs and surgery, and so forth. Physicians of every school, in all kinds of practice, are continually finding themselves up against a stone wall, so to speak, which they cannot get over, or through, or around and confess themselves helpless, if they are honest, and the majority of them are.

It may be that a short story of my experience in finding "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" will fall across the path of some one walking amid shadows and beacon them, so I here set it down. It is Omar the Persian who sings in his Rubiat of The heavenly alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden into gold transmutes; and surely the leaden metal of my old life has by the wine of Truth been transformed into real gold.

With a great love of God, thought may recognize that He is All-in-all, the One wholly and infinitely Good, that "besides Him there is none other," that His omnipresence as Mind satisfies mankind's pursuit of Truth, and that His omnipotence as Love answers the minutest need of the affections. Such being the Source of all existence which He pronounced "very good," must be our very Life,—true consciousness, individuality, and immortal blessedness,—even Perfection expressed in a perfect universe, wherein man is God's likeness, the spiritual reflection of infinite Spirit.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," p. 129, Mrs.

An ever-increasing appreciation of the faithful work of those who have charge of our publications and gratitude for the help that I have received from reading the testimonies of others make me esteem it a privilege to try to help others by writing of some experiences which helped me to a better understanding of Christian Science. When I first became interested in the subject I thought that anything of a helpful nature would have to come outside of the line of my daily work, for to my thought there seemed but little in machine-shop work that could point to spiritual facts; but I am thankful that I have since learned that environment is no barrier to Truth, and many times during the last five years I have mentally exclaimed while in the shop, "This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.