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AT our Wednesday evening testimony meetings we sometimes hear statements concerning the length of time required for the stated healings to take place, some saying that their healing was slow. The question arises, Why was the demonstration protracted? May not a reason for the delayed demonstration have been the state of lethargy in which so-called mortal mind would try to hold one? If the claim of sickness or disease does not include the belief of pain, or if the pain is quickly overcome, is not the sickness or disease apt to remain with us, as part of our thinking? The belief that time has anything to do with healing is error.

RARE metals and gems buried deep in the earth must be brought forth and put through a process of refining before their beauty can be fully recognized. The arduous search for these treasures and the labor of separating them from worthless matter makes them of such value that they are called precious.

THERE is an old story which tells of a knight who lived in a castle surrounded by a deep moat, the drawbridge of which was never lowered, for this knight believed he had an enemy living not far away. Inside the castle the great hall was cold and cheerless, for there were no windows, but only slits in the thick walls through which the archers might shoot.

THE realization that Christian Science is exact Science, capable of precise demonstration, gradually but none the less forcibly dawns upon the consciousness of the student. Through study he is continually discovering truths which are perhaps new to him, but which are as eternal as God Himself, for they are of God.

THE world owes an overwhelming debt of gratitude to the beloved Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, if only for her wonderful definition of God. The enrichment of mankind's thought through her inspired revelation of what God really is, makes her deserving of our grateful love and our most honest devotion to her teachings.

THE solemn question, "What is truth?" propounded by the perplexed Pontius Pilate on that morning when, had he been sufficiently spiritually-minded to divine it, he would have realized that the representative of Truth was standing before him, has continued ever since to exercise human thought, and never more so than to-day. Despite the superficiality of mortal beliefs, serious thinkers are feeling more insistently than ever before the necessity for an explanation of the cosmos and of its ultimate meaning.

Christian Science is the Science of infinite Mind, and as we understand it we are being linked to irresistible power. "Progress is the law of infinity," Mrs.

LET us suppose that Christ Jesus were comprehensible by mortals to-day in the manner in which he was nineteen centuries ago. Let us also suppose that an honest, sincere seeker who had observed some of the Master's works addressed Jesus according to the speech of the present time.

MAN'S divine and eternal heritage is epitomized in these familiar verses from I John: "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.

MARY BAKER EDDY writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 442) , that "truth cannot be reversed, but the reverse of error is true.