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There is no term which suggests more of good and of ill than the word loyalty. Every darkest page of history has been illumined in some spot by the exhibition of a splendid devotion to a high ideal, while even the fairest annals of the doings of men have been marred by superstitious adherence to some low, ignoble sense of obligation.

No community or individual that seeks to eradicate disease accident by waging a campaign of fear, will ever succeed in the attempt, because fearing a thing means that the power of evil is believed in as a reality. One can never heal a disease so long as it is believed to be real or powerful.

It is well known that even a slight knowledge of Christian Science arouses an intelligent interest in and love for the Bible. The growing interest the student feels in this marvelous Book through the light thrown upon it by the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mrs.

In replying to a question as to whether one should properly regard one's self as immortal, or mortal, Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

" Loose him, and let him go," were the clarion words of Christ Jesus at the sepulcher of Lazarus. We read in the eleventh chapter of John that, before those commanding words were spoken, "he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.

All students of Christian Science know how important are the Scriptures, and they invariably become Bible students. They become students, however, not of the mere historical facts of the Bible, but they seek to find the spiritual significance of the passages they may be studying.

Human living may be said to be a continuous striving to represent truly the ideal. There is scarcely an individual, however humble or exalted his position, gloomy and apparently hopeless his outlook on life or rich in material wealth and big with promise his future, who has not known a deep-lying conviction of a higher and sublimer goal to be attained than that held out by material environment.

In the present seething mental turmoil, when more strenuous attempts than ever before are being made to enthrone the human mind; when charlatans and deluded intellectuals alike proclaim it to be omnipotent; when the claim to dominate the world by mental means, no matter how evil, is thundering its vacuous nothingness; when the enemy of Christ is striving to "divide and rule;" when shortsighted, impetuous Peters rush to take the sword of material means in the attempt to rebuke sheer nothingness, to allay the necessary and salutary chemicalization that is the sure sign and promise of the coming of the wholeness which is the Christ; when weary workers, fainting under the charge to "watch with me one hour" begin to ask themselves whether it is any longer safe or wise to return good for evil, and whether the Sermon on the Mount is sufficient equipment for the fight against evil: when all these things are clamoring to be heard, it is well to remember that Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered that "evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power" (Science and Health, p. 330 ), and who ordered her life in accordance with that truth, never permitted considerations of the enormity or subtlety of evil to deter her or to mesmerize her into personalizing evil, into dignifying a bewildered human mind with any shade or grade of importance or power.

The educated man of today, although rejecting the accusation that he is even now victimized by superstitious beliefs, probably maintains, if he be a student of the history of religion, that superstition has been an aid to civilization. The word concurs in meaning with the Greek word, δєισιδαιμovία, used by Paul, which is derived from two words, one meaning timid, and the other, malevolent spirit.

It is a world privilege that in December, in this year of grace 1920, we are celebrating the Tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers on the shores of New England. The study of history in the past has been too much from a material standpoint.