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It should be plain to all reasonable thinkers that there cannot be two real but divergent creations, the one spiritual and harmonious, the other material and discordant; for Spirit and matter, harmony and discord, are opposites. In his second epistle to the Corinthians, Paul tells us that "the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Every Christian Scientist is patiently and persistently endeavoring to prove the practical meaning of the word "translation. " Paul had a clear sense of the transforming power of Truth, for when writing to the Colossians he gave thanks to the Father, "who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son;" that is, delivered us from the darkness of materiality, with its doubts and fears and the seeming power of its illusions of sickness, sin, and death; in other words, awakened us to the right understanding of God.

It is claimed that at no time in human history has the Bible been so widely read as during recent years. Hundreds of thousands of volumes have been sold yearly, all over the world,—a proof, it is believed, that the number of earnest Bible students is steadily increasing.

In the book of Acts we read of "Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord," as he journeyed to Damascus, and of the light that suddenly "shined round about him .

Nothing in human experience is more to be desired than peace; yet nothing seems to be more generally lacking. Individual peace, collective peace,—both are sought in devious ways, but neither is obtained satisfactorily.

In Isaiah we read, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord. " A witness, according to the dictionary, is that which furnishes evidence or proof.

The records of the Hebrew Scriptures have at times been doubted, because sometimes apparently contradictory to ordinary experience. Happily for students of Christian Science, a new interpretation has brought enlightenment which dispels denials of their authenticity.

THE manner of love which Jesus manifested in his healing work, and which drew all men unto him, proved that he was a man of God, and that his godliness was an impelling attraction. This essential characteristic of the divine nature is nowhere more clearly evidenced than in his healing of the one demented, who came to him out of the tombs of the Gadarenes.

THE longing for fuller life, for love, for peace and joy, makes the eye shine with anticipation and the heart beat higher. But struggle and unrest appear to characterize the course of time and history.

A MAN walked into the office of a Christian Science practitioner and, pulling a much used Bible from a breast pocket, said he wanted the interpretation of the last chapter in the Old Testament. He asked if the practitioner thought that Elijah had come again since Malachi wrote those words; or was the prophet still to walk the earth.