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[This sermon, the manuscript of which is in possession of The Christian Science Board of Directors, was prepared by Mrs. Eddy, evidently for oral delivery, over thirty-five years ago, hence its literary style differs somewhat from that of her later writings.

TEACHERS at swimming schools have a way of testing the courage of pupils, and at the same time of stimulating their confidence in the sustaining strength of what on the surface appears to be only a yielding flux of negative consistency, by sending them out on the springboard as soon as they have mastered the first lessons. The more courageous may then be observed to accept the ordeal with natural abandon, satisfied that the sagacity of the instructor would demand no effort beyond reason; others again will walk to the end of the board with no less display of valor, but at the crucial moment their attitude may suddenly change and show signs of incongruous fear, and neither persuasion nor example can induce them to act up to their professions made so bravely but a minute before.

WHEN, in November, 1908, Mrs. Eddy launched The Christian Science Monitor, she wrote of it as follows ( Miscellany, p.

IT is probably safe to make the prediction that not a single individual who reads the word discouragement will wonder what phase of human experience is referred to. The feeling of discouragement has been shared so universally by all the sons of men, that there is probably no one who will fail to recognize it with more or less familiarity, and all will agree, despite familiarity, that it is one of the worst enemies of mankind, and one from which all are endeavoring to escape.

IN these days of a world-wide sense of sorrow, when all men everywhere are being forced to think of something higher and better than the mortal concept of life with which many have hitherto been satisfied, there must be an ever increasing appreciation of and gratitude for the Christian Science church. Those who are striving to establish in their consciousness the true idea of church, as Mrs.

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.