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Materialists are always in trouble. They build theories on nothing, and change them with the seasons.

My dear readers, you do not know the good you can accomplish by studying Christian Science, not only in healing, but in carrying those with whom you come in contact up to the higher understanding of Life. Everybody that can should study this Fall, to be sure of the instruction of our present teacher, and the president of our college.

Children are natural metaphysicians. A little four-years-old child of a Christian Scientist, overheard talking to herself, her father said.

We have a beautiful idea of this word health, as the old Saxons spell it wholth, meaning, wholesoundness. Thus we see Jesus' meaning, where he so often uses the term, "Thy faith hath made thee whole.

Spirit and its formations are all that are real; no partnership or fellowship exists between those two opposites—Spirit and Matter. They cannot co-exist or co-operate, and either one can no more create the other than Truth can create error and vice versa.

There is sunshine reflected from a happy and contented mind as really as from solar rays, and this mental light is universally recognized, and its rays bring warmth and beauty, stimulating all within the range of its influence, and quickening into growth germs of goodness that had long lain dormant. Some humble heart is able thus to lift the veil of despondency that has thrown its shadows athwart the mind and shut out its own sunlight and eclipsed the light for its neighbor.

The most effectual faith in God is not that which takes the form of the intellectual proposition that He is a mighty personal being, ruling the universe from some invisible throne at its centre; but it is faith in the goodness, the truth, the right, the love which He is. Then the soul connects by natural channels of communication with the very springs of divine life, and draws therefrom inexhaustible supplies.

The power of will should be exercised only by the highest faculties and curbed by the sentiments, or it will hold the reins and misguide the judgment, and let loose the propensities. To guard and govern the thoughts is the province of the higher faculties that alone act upon the body beneficially.

The higher the order of intellect with which one is brought in contact, the less one has to fear ; true goodness is all charity, and true genius is the least presumptuous. The belief that guardian spirits hover around the paths of men covers a mighty truth ; for every beautiful, and good and pure thought which the heart holds, is an angel of mercy, purifying and guarding the life.

Nerves are neither the source of pain nor of pleasure. We may suffer or enjoy without nerves, as in dreams, and that pain or that pleasure is not communicated through a nerve.