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THE great need of humanity is salvation from error, whether manifested in sin, disease, ignorance,fear, grief, poverty, or other discords. Whether one knows it or not, he needs to be saved from a wrong concept of existence, mistaken views of individuality and substance.

WHEN in Christian Science we first begin to understand God as Principle, we are apt to think that in losing our old sense of God as a superior sort of human being we are losing the warmth and comfort which came to us through such a belief. But when we begin to work by our new knowledge, and prove over and over again that God is omnipotent Life, Truth, Love, we find that a firm hold of this Principle which never varies is more comforting and helpful than any former belief in what we called a personal God.

PATHOS largely depends upon the helplessness of the characters involved. It is the inability of one of Dickens' characters to respond to the demand to "make an effort" which gives poignancy to the feelings of the reader.

A GROUP of sad faced relatives were bidding farewell to a young girl dressed in mourning. It was evident that there was great solicitude for her welfare, and the tenderest love was expressed.

CHRIST JESUS came as the light of the world, revealing to human consciousness the true sense of God and pointing to God alone as the source of all good, peace, and satisfaction, thus emphasizing the first commandment of the Decalogue, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. " Rome had claimed to bring the light of civil and political reform through military strength, but it led to ruin and decay.

An  analysis of physical phenomena shows that color, hardness, and the various other qualities which seem to belong to matter,—in fact which are relied upon to furnish the only evidence that matter exists as an entity,—are mental concepts. Mrs.

IT is interesting to note that when Paul used the word gift in the sixth and twelfth chapters of Romans, and in several places in his first epistle to the Corinthians, he selected a Greek word, charisma, signifying "spiritual recompense, a free gift of grace, " translated by one authority "the power of a holy life," a word which differs from the one used in Matthew ii. 11 , also in other places in the gospels, in that this word, donor, implies a material offering or earthly treasure.

IT is comparatively easy for one to enumerate the myriad ways in which human love is made manifest: in giving and withholding; in sacrifice and surrender; in patience, tenderness, forgiveness, and so on through a list that would swell to large proportions if each should add his own special definition of what constitutes a genuine expression of love. Yet higher than merely human love, because the very source from which it springs, is Love divine; and a recognition of this, and its universality, leads one to enter a new world, for Love rightly understood meets every need of humanity.

AMONG the most beautiful of the many similes used in the Scriptures is that of the Christ knocking at the door of human consciousness, as pictured in Revelation. It is part of what John was commanded to write to the church at Laodicea, and reads, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

ONCE a young student in Christian Science was telling a guest of the blessings which Christian Science had brought into her experience. "All that you say is very interesting," he replied, "but I cannot get over the fact that you people have a different Bible.