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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.

IT is sometimes said, even by those who have made progress in the study of Christian Science, that this Science requires its students to separate themselves from their fellows and to work out their own salvation in a kind of mental aloofness and isolation; in other words, that the student must surrender all intimate associations and stand utterly alone. It would perhaps be difficult to find a more misleading and forbidding misconception of the real teachings of Christian Science and of the Bible,—forbidding as much to spiritual love and compassion as to the instincts of friendliness and good-fellowship so deeply embedded in the better human consciousness.

ALWAYS the appeal of Christian Science is to right reasoning and not to emotional ecstasy. Many an earnest Christian Scientist of today was at first prejudiced against what he had thought Christian Science to be, mainly because he had misconceived of it as merely a matter of thinking or saying that nothing is the trouble, even when one seems to be suffering.

WHEN the time draws near for the election of officers in the branch churches, it is fitting that every active worker for the cause should earnestly endeavor to manifest a keen, practical knowledge of how best to cast his vote for the highest welfare of the church of which he is a member. The word politics in a good sense is thus defined: "Sagacious in promoting a policy, wise, prudent.

IN Science and Health (p. 538) we read, "The sun, giving light and heat to the earth, is a figure of divine Life and Love, enlightening and sustaining the universe.

IN these days of the world's unrest and need, it is well to see where we stand and to make sure that we are doing our part in helping to solve the problem of human existence. Mrs.