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The many articles regarding the Sunday school, which appear from time to time in The Christian Science Journal and Sentinel, have been so helpful to me that I am impelled to share some of my joyful experiences in this work with others. When asked to teach a class it seemed it would have been more proper to ask me to take a chair in the class itself.

As the unreality of matter, or materialism, dawned with clearer and clearer vision upon the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, he was led to make this declaration: "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. " This would, indeed, have been a most deplorable and hopeless state of mind had not his ability to make such a declaration enabled him also to perceive the underlying spiritual reality as expressed in his inspired summary: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Throughout the Bible man and his achievements have so predominated that the human mind is prone to lose sight of the fact that "male and female created he them. " A question pertinent to this hour may well be asked: What part has woman played in Israel's history? Woman has performed a most important work in the emancipation and redemption of mankind.

Why is it that some cases under Christian Science treatment respond more quickly than do others under the same metaphysical process? Helpful articles in answer to the above question appear frequently in the authorized Christian Science literature, and the following passage of Scripture recently quoted in one such article has been found most enlightening to the writer. In the fifteenth chapter of the first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, the great apostle wrote, "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

The passing of time is powerless to rob man of his birthright of life and intelligence, derived from divine Principle, Love, and forever renewed and replenished. Life and intelligence are never obtained through matter, and are never lost in Mind.

There are times in nearly every one's experience when the bondage of matter seems intolerable; when there is an impelling desire to strike for freedom—if one only knew where to strike! And then, perhaps after a fruitless effort, the sigh follows, "How long, oh, how long!" These experiences are really tokens that there is a glorious land of freedom which man should now be enjoying. Mrs.

IT would appear to be the privilege of the human mind to consider itself immune from the perpetration of sins recorded against past generations of the human race; and this is because the human mind acts in a reverse manner to that indicated by Paul, the metaphysician, and wrestles with flesh and blood instead of with impersonal evil manifesting itself through every age and race. Many Christians have sung the stanza:— "When mothers of Salem their children brought to Jesus, The stern disciples drove them back and bade them depart; But Jesus saw them ere they fled and sweetly smiled and kindly said, 'Suffer little children to come unto me.

AN appellation for Christ Jesus which is cherished by all Christian Scientists is that of "the Wayshower. " The pathway in which he trod is the way, and he admonished all mankind to follow after him.

IN Jesus' temptations in the wilderness, after his fasting forty days and forty nights he became hungry. Mortal thoughts came tempting him, and he read them so perfectly and accurately that they seemed to speak aloud and say, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

FOR the beginner in Christian Science, demonstration is often easy; mountains of fear, disease, and sin are removed before the newfound faith in God which sees nothing as impossible. The result is such joyful wonder and thanksgiving at the perception of the real man, the image and likeness of God, as is expressed in the words, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.