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HOW often the student of Christian Science is faced with the argument of material sense, which seems ever to be endeavoring to refute his declarations of truth! It suggests, Well, if what you say is true, that God, Spirit, is good, and good is infinite, how did matter, evil, sin, sickness, originate? It is as if mortal mind were arrogantly asserting: Well, at least here I am! What are you going to do about me? So-called mortal mind would seem to be persistently tempting us into a bypath of useless questioning and searching, thereby leading us away from the path of light and truth into a labyrinth of futile conjecture. The alert student, however, being ever on guard against these wiles of error which would sidetrack him.

ALTHOUGH most people to-day have outgrown the belief of hell as a place of fire and brimstone and of heaven as the abode of white-robed robed angels playing on harps, some may still be thinking of them as places or, at best, as states of consciousness to be reached only after death. Through studying Christian Science we soon discover not only that heaven and hell are states of thought, not localities, and that each individual must decide which shall be his mental abode, but also that the decision must be made here and now, and made continuously.

OBEDIENCE to spiritual law is a sure refuge for mankind from the penalties inflicted by submission to a false, material sense of law. In like manner, to comply with righteous human codes saves the individual from the penalties inflicted on transgressors.

THE true sense of dwelling in unity is to recognize and be continually conscious of the fact that there is only one Mind, God, and that man is the expression of Mind. Does this seem too wide an assertion to make? No; for what it comprises is only what Jesus the Christ emphasized as God's law, and the way by which we may attain the understanding of our spiritual inheritance, eternal life: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

" A CITY that is set on an hill cannot be hid. " Standing on the steps of the Sanatorium of The Christian Science Benevolent Association at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, one is forcefully reminded of these words of Christ Jesus.

IT has been said, with perhaps more truth than is generally realized, that more people die for want of love than of starvation, war, and pestilence put together. It may be that education has been instrumental in leading us to think that love is a personal feeling, unrequited or gratified, rather than a spiritual quality to be learned, cultivated, and developed.

PROBABLY everyone who has walked along the seashore at low tide has noticed the small round gray calcareous shells of the barnacles. In many instances they cover the surfaces of large rocks, the piling of wharves, and whatsoever other objects are washed by tidal waters.

" IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. " As John discerned the truth through spiritual sense and gave it to men, so must the true scribe to this age read the inner language of the Bible, revealing its infinite import.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy wrote, in her Preface to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

ONE who leaves a solitary place to become a citizen of a populous community, if he is capable of utilizing the advantages of the community, generally finds his opportunities enlarged. Similarly, one uniting with the great organization of The Mother Church with its branches, an organization formed to preserve intact in its perfectness the revelation of divine Science, which healed and saved him, and to bring this Science to all mankind, finds his mental treasures abundantly multiplied.