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Doubtless to many hearts at the approach of the holiday season there comes the remembrance of happy family reunions, when loved ones from far and near returned home to sit at the festal board and to gather cosily around the Yule log. At such times love and happiness seemed to reign supreme, and in retrospection the great need is to gather the lessons of such experiences and press on to higher joys.

One afternoon, as we were riding on horseback up a mountainside in the warm sunshine, a tiny scud cloud drifted for the moment over us, perceptibly cooling the air in our faces. "What a difference," my friend mused aloud, "even a little cloud can make.

During the first years of my study of Christian Science I was constantly marveling at the wonder of Mrs. Eddy's having discovered this great truth.

The great blessing that Christian Science gives to the world is its restoration of the spiritual consciousness of life and being to all mankind; the great evil of the serpent's temptation, as presented in the second chapter of Genesis, was its forcing the material sense of being and existence upon mortals. The reason for the great progress of Christian Science is that it ministers to the innate desire in humanity for spiritual things.

It is the privilege of members of a Christian Science church to listen in the course of years to many hundreds of testimonies to the power of Christian Science to heal the sick. Different cases appeal to different individuals.

Without the fuller meaning which Christian Science gives to the Scriptural injunction to "honour thy father and thy mother," it was difficult for the writer to see how the accompanying promise, "that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee," would be fulfilled as a natural consequence of observing this law. Deep gratitude is felt, therefore, to Mrs.

On page 107 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in speaking of her discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy says, "God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.

Among the simplest and most beautiful of the Bible records of so-called miracles performed by the Prophet of Galilee was the healing of the leper. The story of the cleansing of this leper is given in two short verses in the eighth chapter of Matthew: "Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

The teachings of Christian Science uphold the highest standard for Christian character maintained by the Christian churches,—a standard which all agree has been determined by the words and works of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower. But Christian Science goes on even farther and shows that these selfsame words and works require of a Christian much more than the mere acceptance of this standard before all that the word "Christian" implies can possibly be fulfilled, for the master Christian placed upon every one that believes on his word the unavoidable obligation to "heal the sick" by the grace and power of God.

Most of us who attended other than Christian Science Sunday schools in our younger days can recall the large charts of colored pictures which were used to illustrate the lesson of each week. Among these the writer especially recalls the one illustrating the parable of the sower.