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The query, "What influence does the study of Christian Science exert upon college life? has so often been asked that the writer desires to give some of her own experiences in the hope that others may find therein the answer. It was only through Christian Science that she was able to go to college, because of seemingly entire lack of financial resources.

In all of Mrs. Eddy's writings, instinct as they are with energy and purpose, there are few statements more heart-stirring and inspiring than that which she makes on page vii of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," namely, "The time for thinkers has come.

Law is defined in the dictionary as "a rule of being or of conduct; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts. " The same dictionary defines moral law as "the will of God; the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward Him and toward each other: a rule of living conformable to righteousness.

In these days when the world is emerging from the maelstrom of human woe, when the onward sweep of events deepens the insistent note of human hope, it is fitting that we obey the Master's tender injunction to those who had been zealously striving against similar conditions, and again turn aside into a desert place, to experience that refreshing which emanates from the presence of the God of the whole earth. And when, as did the Master and his friends so frequently, we turn to the wilderness for succor and relief, we find amid the vast silences the comfort of the word of God and the vision of the "Son of man," as exemplified in the definition of "wilderness" given by Mrs.

With God, says James, "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. " Again, we read, "From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

The Jew is again seeking the Messiah. His dropping of age-old creeds and dogmas which satisfied his forefathers signifies this fact.

A great deal is being said at the present time about compulsory health insurance, and it may be well for us to study the subject in the light of Christian Science. On page 60 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs.

By human beings space is usually considered to mean that which seems to contain everything in existence, and it is described in various ways, such as an external environment, fathomless expanse, an all-inclusive medium, or a mental creation. Dimensions are made use of when we are considering space of limited size and shape, for which an elaborate geometrical system has been developed, based upon the point, line, surface, and solid as the elements.

Not long ago there went forth from a meeting in The Mother Church a young man with a new ambition. At that gathering Christian Scientists were invited by one of the editors to become contributors to the pages of the Sentinel and Journal.

The student of history who approaches his subject in the light of Christian Science is early impressed with the evidence that underneath the surface conflict in human affairs, the steady, orderly, and irresistible unfolding of good is in process. As the clouds of conflicting theories clear away from any age and the proper perspective is obtained, the constructive work of Principle lies revealed to the seeing eye.