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As year after year has passed since the inception of The Christian Science Monitor, Mrs. Eddy's wisdom and foresight in establishing this example of clean journalism are more fully appreciated.

Our Anglo-Saxon word church is derived from the Greek word kyriakon, which means, "the Lord's house. " This nomenclature indicates a leader with a body of followers; it furthermore points to a departure on the part of some from an established condition of belief.

Energy is a favorite word with physicists. With it they conjure up any number of situations and endeavor to explain any number of things.

It has been said that the greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is "to see something and tell what he saw, in a plain way. " There is no place where clear seeing and plain telling should receive greater attention than in the Christian Science Sunday school.

While the words "army" and "legions" bring militarism to thought, they really signify according to Christian Science something far above the mortal concept. The Bible presents in several places references to an army as being a power above things terrestrial.

There may be some who believe that if Paul were living in this year of our Lord, 1918, he would not write with such confidence about our "always having all sufficiency in all things. " From a human sense of things there appears to be not only a decided insufficiency of the ordinary comforts and conveniences of life, owing to the strange situation in which the world finds itself, but many of the things which have heretofore been regarded as actual necessities seem to be approaching perilously near the vanishing point.

The paradox of a perfect God and a seemingly imperfect creation has always been a stumblingblock to theologians, but Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science cut the Gordian knot by furnishing proof that imperfection, error, evil, exists only as a false claim, a suppositional lie or negation of the truth, and therefore that it does not in any sense belong to the divine creation.

Inasmuch as divine law endows every individual with the ability to do good under all circumstances, no one is ever without the means of contributing to the betterment of his home and of his community. By the same token every church member may always be doing something which will promote the prosperity and success of his church, a fact which places a responsibility upon his shoulders which cannot be shaken off or evaded.

The promise that the blind shall see is prominent in Jewish prophecies of the works of the Messiah. The Messianic era was foretold as a period of general enlightenment.

The word grace runs through the Bible like a golden thread which may be followed in searching the Scriptures to trace the never ending, ever developing longing of the human heart to turn from erroneous conclusions based on the evidence of the material senses, to the eternal verities, which unfold in the ratio that thought relinquishes sense and self and turns to God, divine Mind. Noah, tempted by the mesmerism of wickedness, destruction, violence, and fear which raged about him, threatening to obscure and distort his spiritual view, "found grace in the eyes of the Lord.