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The tendency of the human mind has ever been to imagine that it has achieved something if it can only thrust back its explanations a stage. Thus, the ancient, who to the generally accepted theory that the world was supported on the back of an elephant added the confident assertion that the elephant stood on the back of a tortoise, imagined, no doubt, that he had contributed very considerably to the explanation of things.

Seneca tells of a great traveler who was complaining that he was never the better for his travels. "That is very true," said Socrates, "because you traveled with yourself.

Although a cursory glance might cause some readers to think the freedom of prohibition a paradox, metaphysical reasoning indicates that instead of interfering with individual liberty, prohibition, by denying to man sin, sickness, and death, reveals him as the unfettered idea of Mind—free from the bondage of evil. Divine intelligence maintaining its likeness, the forever untrammeled manifestation of consciousness, prohibits man from wrong acting, speaking, or thinking.

The story of Nehemiah's successful completion of the walls of Jerusalem is a most comforting one to the student of Christian Science. It portrays distinctly the different ways in which suggestion tries to impose itself as thought, activity, and causation, and shows how it must inevitably fail in the presence of a pure and vigorous realization of the fact stated by Mrs.

In the course of the steady progress of humanity, nothing has evidenced more clearly its advancement from barbarism to civilization than the development of business. In the dawn of human history men were obliged to care for themselves; each head of a family provided its food and shelter.

Christian Science teaches that objects in the world of mortal sense and the so-called laws which seem to govern the phenomena relating to them, are but the products of mortal mind beliefs and that they are counterfeits of spiritual ideas and of the immutable laws through which divine activity is expressed. To one who had spent years in studying and teaching the so-called natural sciences, the uncompromising claim of Christian Science that there is but one true Science, that of infinite Mind, came somewhat as a shock.

An acquaintance with the affairs of the world to-day, if it does nothing else, reveals beyond all cavil that humanity is sorely in need of help; for it seems that never in mortal history has there been more of woe and human misery than to-day, and never before have so many sufferers cried out to be delivered from their distresses, and hungered so for something—they know not what. Every day brings to us new examples of this great hunger, and every hour we are reminded of the counsel of our revered Leader, found on page 570 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says: "Millions of unprejudiced minds— simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink.

Isaiah, beholding the corruption of an ancient king and prophetically seeing his great and glorious kingdom made as Sodom and Gomorrah, exclaimed, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" The prophet is supposed to have based this metaphor on a Semitic myth that the morning star had fallen from heaven. Later, the poet Milton, seizing upon the same figure of speech, identified Lucifer with the rebel archangel, and, from that time on, this misconception has been very generally accepted.

" And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. " Mankind has more or less generally accepted a division of work into works, of Life into lives.

We frequently hear the old saying, "Knowledge is power. " Knowledge is power only when it is the right kind of knowledge and when it is wisely used, because a wise use of it demonstrates truth, the only true knowledge.