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" MARY BAKER EDDY, with her usual incisiveness, asserts in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 405 ), "The pains of sinful sense are less harmful than its pleasures.

THE account of Naaman's healing through the mediation of Elisha, given in the second book of Kings, illustrates the experience of some in the present day who come to Christian Science for healing. For, like Naaman, they sometimes come in moods of pomp and worldly circumstance, in the expectation of obtaining spiritual benefits by the mere bestowal of a material bonus.

A CERTAIN fountain playing in the sunshine in a lovely park and sending forth an abundance of clear, sparkling water, draws many to it to partake of its ever flowing streams of refreshment. How joyous and bright it seems as its waters break up the sunbeams into numberless rainbows and the birds perch on its edge to drink of the cool, shining water! The fountain always has an ample supply of water, not only for the birds, but also for the children warm from their play, the worn and weary men, and the thirsty women longing for surcease from the heat.

AS we read and ponder the Biblical records, we learn many helpful lessons from the lives of the early prophets. In each successive period of those early days one figure usually stands out as a light that cannot be hid.

FREEDOM in every avenue of being is the radiant reality of man's true existence, his spiritual birthright; for "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. " On page 259 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs.

This is the true nature of home. It is the place of peace; the shelter not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

IN a letter addressed to The Mother Church, to be found on pages 141 and 142 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy says: "Of our first church in Boston, O recording angel! write: God is in the midst of her: how beautiful are her feet! how beautiful are her garments! how hath He enlarged her borders! how hath He made her wildernesses to bud and blossom as the rose!" Mrs.

IN the eleventh chapter of II Corinthians, Paul gives us a vivid summary of the many trials encountered in his Christian ministry. He writes: "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

ONE of the cardinal points which Christian Science demands we accept is the unreality of matter. This, as any one may readily perceive, is tantamount to saying that the evidence before the physical senses is unreal, and therefore should not be accepted as a basis for right reasoning.

ALL who honestly pursue the study and practice of Christian Science discover that a great transformation is required on their part. However far from, or near to, the kingdom of God they may have appeared to be, they will sooner or later be rewarded by the conviction that the evil ways of the world must be wholly abandoned and God must be everywhere obeyed.