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IN "The Pilgrim's Progress," Christian, when in the House of the Interpreter, saw "a Fire burning against a Wall, and one [the Devil] standing by it always, casting much Water upon it to quench it. " At the back of the wall stood the Christ "with a Vessel of Oil in his hand, of the which he did also continually cast, but secretly, into the fire;" and it was impossible for the evil one to comprehend the reason why the fire continually burned higher and hotter.

HOW to find surcease from the woes of mortal sense has been one of the problems of mankind throughout all ages. Both as nations and as individuals mortals have ever been striving for freedom from so-called wrong conditions, the results of their ignorance of God and His government of the universe, including man.

IT would seem quite impossible for an intelligent person, free to do his own thinking, to rest content in believing that an infinitely wise, infinitely good and omnipotent God either created or permitted a rival power to set up a reign of evil within His kingdom of infinite good. So illogical is this theory of two rival kingdoms, sovereignty within sovereignty, that human ingenuity has been exceedingly busy trying to devise some plausible explanation which should not conflict either with the omnipotence and all-presence of God, who is infinite good, or with the cherished beliefs of mortals in the reality of evil.

NEARLY all of us come to Christian Science in the first instance to get something, to get relief from some phase of physical or mental inharmony. We may be, at first, much like the five thousand who once followed Jesus out into the wilderness, and of whom he afterwards said, "Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

TO the students of Christian Science there is special significance in the words, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven;" for to them a light has shone into the darkness of old fears and stumbling faith. For them have been fulfilled the words spoken by Longfellow, A Lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land.

THE student of Christian Science discovers that many of the determining objects and circumstances of his everyday life are not what they have always seemed. When he has attained even a slight spiritual elevation of thought, he can account for what he now knows to have been false phenomena; for he sees that he has been walking in a distorting haze.

MOSES looked wholly to God for guidance, and was thus enabled to lead the children of Israel out of the land of bondage, where they had been the victims of tyrannical and oppressive laws. He was also able to show them how to take their first steps toward the land of promise.

MOST men will agree that human forbearance and loving-kindness find their highest expression in willingness to forgive. But human pardon is sometimes abused, as even faltering worldly experience teaches.

IN our textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.

THE great problem confronting mortals in the working out of their salvation, according to the Scriptures, is the overcoming of the belief in a material selfhood. The physical senses, which have been carefully developed since the day of mortal birth, constantly and persistently attempt to maintain the fallacious beliefs that life is the product of matter, and that matter is the basis or foundation of existence, although this so called existence is liable at any moment to interruption or apparent extinguishment.