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POSSIBLY nothing appeals more readily to the faculty of human reason than the fact that Principle is imperative and absolute, and therefore necessarily demonstrable. Every scientific statement admits of proof, according to a fixed and governing law, which law cannot possibly entertain the least "variableness, neither shadow of turning.

THE Master promised that the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father would send in his name, would teach us all things and bring to our remembrance all things which Christ Jesus taught his apostles. Christ Jesus epitomized in his life and teachings the Science of being, and told us this was the door through which we must enter.

IN the year 1840 an immigrant from Europe was landed in New York City. He obtained clerical employment with a trader there, of whom it may be said, as the poet piously says of Abou Ben Adhem, "May his tribe increase!" for he was a scrupulously honest man and merchant.

Mrs. Eddy's message to Christian Scientists, which appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel, September 1, 1917, under the caption "Principle and Practice," points to close scrutiny of the method of Christian Science practice, in order to detect whether our work is based upon a mere belief in divine Principle or upon a demonstrable understanding of God and of His laws.

ALL that is worth having is bought with a price. All that really uplifts and advances a man, a woman, or a nation costs something.

It has been said that "all mankind love a lover. " We may safely add to this and say that all the world loves childhood.

" In the year 1866," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 107 of Science and Health, "I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science.

There are few who when reminded of the household adage, "Some are born great," have not mentally added, "Yes, and some are born good, too!" We read in the Bible of the colossal characters of patriarch, prophet, and apostle, and feel that in their spiritual development they are so far above the average mentality of ourselves and our immediate neighbors that one might as well try to compare, the lilies and orchids of the horticulturist's supreme skill with a cottager's row of carrots and onions. Suddenly, from some obscure mountain village, or emerging from some little crowded back street of a teeming city, comes one whose being is aflame with the immanence of God, and whose path in life henceforth is marked by special acts of self-sacrifice and by stupendous achievement.

Once a Christian Science student was heard to say that it sometimes seemed to him as if some who knew nothing of Christian Science, and did not even want to know anything of it, had an easier time and got along better than those who were making an honest effort to conform their lives to its teachings. He felt resentful over the struggles he was having, and was rebellious that the human situation which he deemed afflictive did not disappear from his experience; it did not seem "fair" to him, nor compatible with the teaching that God is Love.

In Christian Science we learn that through prayer man's unity with God is realized. Perplexed humanity, conscious of the feebleness of this realization, is continually crying out: Teach us how to pray.