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Not uncommonly one hears a mother who has just begun the study of Christian Science speak in this wise: "I would gladly trust myself to Christian Science whatever might occur, but when it comes to my children—oh, that seems so different. " Now any individual is wholly justified in making a thorough investigation of anything which concerns the welfare of his children, and this is just where Christian Science triumphs, for when one has learned through this teaching to understand God as at once the all-powerful Father and the tender, loving Mother, it is realized that to divine Truth only may one safely trust the care of little children.

The length of the Sabbath varies in the Scripture records all the way from a day to eternity; in fact, any religious festival or holiday was termed by the Hebrews "a sabbath unto the Lord. " As a modern institution the Sabbath, or rest from labor, as the word implies, has lost through the centuries of materialism much of its original spiritual significance and in some countries is now regarded more as a secular festival than as a religious holy day.

The only way to arrive at a true definition of the essentials in religion is by gaining first of all the true idea of God as infinite Love. We can realize what is nonessential only by knowing the truth about God, for this knowledge includes the power to reject as nonessential all that is unlike Spirit, God.

Turning away from theology and its frequent concomitant, materia medica, years of faithful adherence to which have brought no practical benefit, many an honest seeker finds a stumblingblock in a misapprehension of the radical denials and affirmations necessary to mental work in Christian Science. "I cannot say my rheumatism is any better when it is not; much less that I have not any such thing when I know I have," declared one dear lady, who added, "Every time I make such statements my heart condemns me because I am telling an untruth.

Now and then the venturesome mountain climber in the upper heights of the Alps chances upon a row of small stones nearly the same in size and uniform in color, usually red or blue, extending across the body of a glacier and well up the bank at either side. These stones are set in place by some student of glaciology for use as a basal line, the better to enable him to measure the rate of movement, that is, the flow of the ice river.

JESUS said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. " In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

THE distribution of Christian Science literature is an imperative duty in these days of world-wide suffering, because this condition is due to ignorance of God, and the remedy, metaphysical Science, gives the proof of His omnipresence and omnipotence. If we heal the world's distress in any least degree, we thereby heal that which seems to be our own, because being merely a mortal supposition it is in fact neither ours nor another's, and the compassion which renders us willing to solace the world with the facts of true being springs from the Science on which our own courage and healing depend.

INDEPENDENT of its poetic and dramatic interest, the book of Job is one of the most remarkable in the Old Testament. According to the narrative, the patriarch from whom the book derives its title is plunged from the pinnacle of apparent material prosperity to the seeming depths of woe and desolation, from which he raises his anguished voice, like many in the present day, to ask the reason why.

PAUL learned many lessons from the Roman soldiers and athletes with whom he was closely associated for several years. He said, "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.

IN conversations among Christian Scientists we may not infrequently hear such remarks as the following: "The Scientists are not awake;" or, "Too many Scientists are sacrificing Principle for the sake of personal considerations," and so on. Now naturally one would suppose that such accusations might be expressed by those unfriendly and opposed to Christian Science, with the desire or intent of injuring the cause.