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Because Jesus knew and demonstrated more of Truth than any one else, his appeal to mankind is the most tender invitation and the clearest call the world has ever heard: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

One of the great failings of the human mind is its tendency to procrastinate. And nowhere, perhaps, is this tendency, at times, more noticeable than amongst Christian Scientists.

Skeptics may perhaps be pardoned for a confessed inability to reconcile the claim that the way of salvation is so plain that "wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein" with the fact that Christendom is divided into some one hundred and fifty different sects, each professing to find its credentials in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Can it be that the essential truths of Christianity were originally voiced in such ambiguous terms as to render their meaning unintelligible to subsequent generations, or is something radically wrong with the way men have undertaken to interpret the Scriptures? The chief difficulty would seem to be that, although punctilious in their efforts to comprehend the letter of the Word, Biblical students have failed to grasp the spiritual point of view which is the key to the inspired utterances.

Christian Science comes to no two of us in the same way and finds no two of us at the same starting point. We may have a sick body or a sick business and some longing for spiritual things, or perhaps some friend's experience has turned us to Christian Science for healing.

The structures and superstructures of enterprise founded upon undisguised evil often seem so vast that it appears almost a thing incredible that evil is not the controlling force of the universe. Nations have arisen that have terrorized the world; bodies, formally or informally corporate, have laid excessive taxes on what is considered necessary to man's very existence; individuals have made slaves of their fellow men, and evil has prospered.

The difference between time and eternity is a question which constantly arises to puzzle mankind. The usual conception of time is that it consists of the passing of minutes, hours, days, months, and years, due to the revolutions of the earth on its axis and around the sun.

When we stop to think about what are used so commonly as words, we realize that they are very wonderful and interesting. They are our means of communication, our method of conveying thought.

Mrs. Eddy's wonderfully exact use of words continually enlightens the one endeavoring to turn from the dualism of unreal sense testimony to the light of Spirit.

Nothing is more important to a practical working knowledge of Christian Science than to make a clear distinction between the real and the unreal in all that we see and think and say and do. There is, perhaps, no better practice in Christian Science than to study the Bible and the writings of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, asking ourselves with almost every sentence we read, "Does this refer to the absolute state of being or only to the human belief?" That many who are called Christian Scientists do not carefully make this distinction is woefully evident in their statements and acts, and the failure to do so accounts for much confusion of thought and inability to obtain that freedom which always accompanies the understanding of the truth.

Mankind seek recreation in varieties of ways, but it is the general opinion that life without it would be a poor thing. The pleasure of social intercourse, the joy of traveling, sight-seeing, and above all delight in the arts and music, had seemed very great to me.