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Before Jesus of Nazareth raised up Lazarus from the dead he expressed his at-one-ment with divine Principle in his familiar words: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always," and from this incident in our Master's experience there are clearly discernible gradations of progress as shown in the changed belief of the onlookers at the tomb, the faith and dawning understanding of Jesus' disciples, and the scientific understanding of the continuity and omnipotence of Love and Life that Jesus consciously reflected.

Because God is both infinite Mind and infinite Life, man in His image and likeness cannot help both living and knowing. This truth is ever forcing the human sense of things to rid itself of its ignorance— in reality of its very self.

" Animal Magnetism Unmasked" is the title of chapter V of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. At the commencement of this chapter she tells us that "Mesmerism or animal magnetism was first brought into notice by Mesmer in Germany in 1775," and on page x of the Preface to the textbook we read, "The first edition of Science and Health was published in 1875.

No teaching of the inspired Word and no counsel of experience is more frequently repeated or more earnestly emphasized than this, that men acquire and exercise wisdom. It is made the specific theme of extended treatment and illustration in Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and the other so-called wisdom-literature.

There was a time when we believed that matter could make us sick; then, through seeing treatment in Christian Science change material conditions, we had to conclude that disease is mental. Occasionally, in this change of attitude toward disease the student of Christian Science tends to overestimate this mortal mind which seems to cause sickness.

Christian Science is appealing more and more irresistibly to reasoning men and women all over the world. "The time for thinkers has come," as Mrs.

Few words in the language have so many meanings and shades of meanings as the word "stand" and its derivative, "standard," and nearly all these meanings may be applied to Some phase of the problem of working out our salvation. As defined in the dictionary, to stand may mean "to maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be firm; to be consistent; to maintain one's ground; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

It sometimes takes a great crisis in life to make one realize the true meaning of expressions which have been familiar to him and on his lips for years. In the humdrum sameness of unalert mortal mind there is a tendency to accept, without investigation or proof, metaphysical statements which may be no more understood than prayers which, are made out of lip service to public opinion or conventionality.

Of all the wolves parading in sheep's clothing, perhaps the most subtle and seemingly successful is human sympathy. Even among students of Christian Science who have demonstrated the allness of good and the consequent nothingness of evil in instance after instance, the suggestion may intrude and find lodgment that human sympathy is a virtue and not a quality of the "old man" which the Scriptures warn us must be "put off.

Of the multitude of beliefs emanating from a so-called mortal mind, that of grief is one of the most subtle and mesmeric. Throughout the ages it has been looked upon with the greatest pity and solicitude.