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A lady who has been very successful in healing says she owes it mainly to her two little daughters, and in corroboration tells the following:— I should have stumbled many a time, through my blindness, had not their clear perception of Truth and their watchfulness saved me. They are so wise in their childish way! One day my little Lilla overheard me say that I had so many patients I thought I could not take any more.

For three weeks the thermometer had stood at an average of 104° in the shade, and for still longer time not a drop of rain! The early vegetables drooped and dried up where they were growing. Even the grass turned sere and yellow; and the dust rose in clouds as it was disturbed by moving teams and vehicles in the roads.

1. What is the definition of baptism? Science and Health defines it as, "Purification by spirit; being submerged in truth.

In the book of the revelation of St. John, there is related a vision of higher thought, in which the inspired seer beholds the destiny of the suffering and persecuted disciples of Truth.

Who is mine enemy, that I should love him? Is it a creature or a thing outside my own creation? Can I see an enemy, except I first formulate this enemy and then look upon the object of my own conception? What is it that harms me? Can "height, or depth, or any other creature" separate me from the Love that is Good—that blesses infinitely one and all? We may simply count our enemy to be that which defiles, defaces and dethrones the Christ-image that we should reflect. Whatever purifies, sanctifies, and consecrates human life is not an enemy.

Annie sat a long while gazing pensively out of the window one day; her thoughts far, far away, and her eyes evidently not seeing the pretty landscape upon which they apparently rested. Her whole attitude was one of complete self-forgetfulness; and her mother, who sat quietly sewing beside, watched with interest the varied expressions that flitted over her face.

All may drink from the same fountain of divine understanding. The Word tells us: "If any lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not.

Some think it unnecessary to study in order to understand and demonstrate the Principle and rule of Christian Science. They complain when told that Science and Health and the Bible must be made constant companions and the subject of all thought and meditation.

The question is very often asked by beginners in Christian Science: "Why are we taught to reject all Christian Science literature that does not come from the Christian Science Publishing Society; from the Teacher and her tried and loyal students?" This teaching sometimes seems to those just coming into the Science, bigoted and arbitrary. This is especially so, when, from from their attitude of thought, the so-called Christian Science writing seems more pleasing, and easier to understand than the true literature.

" Did you not know Me, my child?" the lips and eyes that were all love, seemed to say to her. "You have thought the thoughts that I inspired; you have spoken my words; you set forth to fight on my side in the battle against evil; and yet you forget me, and have often gone near to deny me, while I was standing by your side and giving you the strength to speak and think.