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We must aim at a habit of gratitude which has no relation to present necessities, no eye to the future. Emotional feeling towards a possible benefactor may easily be mistaken for the grateful temper; but the gratitude which fills our heart and guides our conduct when we are well and safe, forgets self, and the interests and prospects of self, in the joy of thankful remembrance.

TRUE power is divine. It is not material; neither is it human.

A STATEMENT of great significance occurs in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, when he proclaims to his followers, "Ye are the light of the world. " Surely, no grander trust, no higher, holier charge, no sweeter mission, could ever have been bestowed on men than that—to shine forth, as God empowered them to do, "the light of the world"! Although living in a material age, surrounded by the evidences of sin, sickness, and death, by all the varied problems of struggling humanity, and confronted everywhere by their beliefs in fear, hatred, vice,—the manifold shadows imposed by the darkness of ignorance,—yet Jesus so allied himself to God, so constantly dwelt "in the secret place of the most High," so detached himself from belief in the power and reality of evil, that he actually was enabled to see what finite sense cannot possibly comprehend or discern—man as the radiant expression of eternal Mind.

" WHAT must I do to be saved?" This question is as momentous to-day as ever it was, because the desire for peace and blessedness is common to all humanity. The desire cannot be anything other than the longing for the answer to this question.

DOUBTLESS during the centuries since the time of Paul, Christians of all creeds have found deep consolation from the oft-quoted first verse of the eighth chapter of Romans. The assuring words, "There is therefore now no condemnation," have probably lifted from many a heart the burden of self-condemnation resulting from a mortal's consciousness of his own shortcomings; and the promise of this blessing— this freedom from condemnation— "to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit," one may well believe has proved an inspiration for greater consecration to spiritual things.

THROUGH Christian Science mankind is led into the atmosphere of freedom, learning intelligently to know God—Life, Truth, and Love. One is thereby able to apprehend, probably for the first time, the true meaning of the words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

GRATITUDE may be said to be appreciation of the fact of man's oneness with the heavenly Father. No one has ever given the world such lessons in gratitude as did Christ Jesus: he was indeed fully aware of the value of the truth which he utilized so unfailingly; he was truly grateful for Life, Truth, and Love, and for a demonstrable knowledge of them.

AN eminent English philosopher, speaking of the utility of a study of philosophy, said that it consisted in the measure of comfort it brought into men's lives, the comfort of hope and expectation. If this can be predicated of that which is largely speculative in its methods, what assurance of comfort should accrue from the study of practical and exact divine metaphysics, whose revelations are of God's nature, of true existence, and have been developed and formulated into an exact Science, capable of being demonstrated by the veriest child.

HAVE not many plaintively lamented a lack of spiritual unfoldment by declaring, "I am not making the progress in Christian Science which I should;" and have they not accepted the statement as one of fact, which cannot be changed? But no error can persist when it has been uncovered and denied, and when the truth has been affirmed. So, instead of resignedly accepting the situation, one should approach it as an opportunity to put into practice the truth already learned in Christian Science, realizing that there is no such thing as an unsolvable problem.

NO question to-day is of more vital importance to the welfare of mankind than how to bring about a better understanding between the various nations which comprise the human race. Few, perhaps, realize how deep-seated in human consciousness are the inherited beliefs and prejudices which characterize nations; and the trend of education is to intensify and strengthen these beliefs, inculcating in the budding thought of childhood the firm conviction of the superiority of one's own country over any other.