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THE word "demonstration" is very frequently used in referring to the application of Christian Science. It is well, therefore, for the student to consider its meaning in order that his efforts may bring forth right results.

IN the rippled waters of the lake, the reflected trees looked like jumbled masses running into one another. Pondering over the picture, to glean a helpful lesson from it, a student of Christian Science reasoned thus: Is this apparent turmoil in the lake real? Is it actually happening? Instantly came the mental reply, Of course not! The soliloquy continued: But look! the green masses in the lake are trembling and jostling one another! surely you will not deny what your eyes are seeing? Then came the imperative thought, Look up! And as she did so she saw the original picture: here was no confused intermingling or jostling of jumbled masses.

HUMANITY is today deeply perplexed through the sudden and unexpected disappearance of what was called prosperity. There is hardly a man or a woman in the civilized world who is not feeling the effects of the much advertised depression, in reduction of income, in lessened or dislocated business, in unremunerative prices, or in unemployment; and nations feel it as much as individuals.

HE who reflected the deepest, purest love ever manifested on earth, who with the tenderness of motherhood would have gathered all humanity under the protecting care of divine Love, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings; indeed, he whose life was love, even Christ Jesus declared, "I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. " Not only this did he say in connection with human relationships, but he also promised that those who for his sake and the gospel's should forsake home and family ties should receive an hundredfold.

IMMORTAL man, the man whom God creates and sustains, is never in danger because he dwells in the realm of eternal reality, where God reigns and where only good is found. Consequently, immortal man needs no warnings of any kind.

On page 75 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The Science of Mind excludes opposites, and rests on unity.

The characteristic attitude of Isaiah is one of awe before the majesty of Yahwe, and fearless denunciation of .

The most certain and significant fact about Isaiah is that he was a citizen, if not a native, of Jerusalem, and had constant access to the court and presence of the king. Jerusalem is Isaiah's "immediate and ultimate regard, the centre and return of all his thoughts, the hinge of the history of his time, the summit of those brilliant hopes with which he fills the future.

In 1853, when Mary Baker Glover married Dr. Daniel Patterson, a dentist who had also studied homeopathy, she was thirty-two years old and an invalid.

The prophet Isaiah [was] the son of a certain Amoz.