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AUTOCRACY is fast disintegrating; thrones are falling, and their passing heralds the approaching reign of Principle. The dethronement of those who were mighty as human masters, shows, as nothing in the world has done better, that the autocratic ruler does not exist who is good enough to dominate for selfish purposes even the body of his lowliest vassel, much less have dominion over his spiritual nature.

AN immeasurable service has been rendered to humanity by Christian Science in lifting the veil of remoteness and mystery from immortality, teaching us that it is a present reality, from which no one is excluded who is willing to strive for it. There is nothing more important to us than the understanding of this fact.

WHEN will men, especially those whose ostensible purpose it is to conserve the health of the race, lay hold upon the simple, scientific fact that through sin death entered into the world, and that disease is therefore but the physical aggregate of antecedent wrong thinking on the part of the human family, which ultimates in material dissolution? It follows that the only radical cure for wrong thinking must lie in right thinking, comprehended in a general righteousness, and wrought out in daily living through intelligent observance of spiritually scientific postulates. These are days of intensive medical exploitation on the part of certain autocratically inclined followers of the old school, despite the fact that epidemics and their stay are alike problematical to these gentlemen, and the so-called incurable diseases are still the bête noire of the profession.

Some years ago a popular magazine offered a prize for the best recipe for making a happy home. The woman who won the prize gave her excellent advice in two words; but oh, how full of meaning were those two short words, "Keep sweet"! The memory of this recipe has often been a help to at least one who read it,— especially in these days of world-wide upheaval and strife.

Students of Christian Science are sometimes heard to say that although a certain needful advance could be achieved by employing will power, they are not willing to make the attempt because Christian Science forbids the use of the human will. One who had been a student of this Science for years sought help to overcome a bad habit.

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.