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IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes (p.

GOD'S perfect law is expressed in His activities. Creation is the effect of perfect cause,—God.

THERE are many to whom the word "obedience" conveys a disciplinary and stern meaning. They maintain that the term implies restriction, curtailment of complete freedom of action; and that to be free to do as one pleases is more to be desired, even though the allurement may be but some whim or fancy, offering an illusory pathway to a garden of uncertain happiness.

IF mankind could be convinced that there is a practical, definite, and provable way out of sickness, out of the ills which they believe must go along with material living, they would certainly hasten to find out what that way is, and no longer depend upon human ways and means for liberation from the burdens imposed by a belief of existence in matter. Indeed, even the so-called mortal mind, which claims to assume a directing hand over the destiny of humanity, and which thinks so much of itself and what it can do in the affairs of men, is not satisfied with its past achievements in relieving itself and the immediate object of its care and solicitude—the mortal body —from its pains and heartaches.

INASMUCH as the word "ambition" is often used, it is well to consider closely the qualities of thought which it represents. Since much that is active in the affairs of the world of material sense, resulting from ambition, is dangerous to public weal and individual peace, we may profitably look into the subject and choose the higher sense of it as alone conducive to happiness.

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.