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ALMOST every one can recall incidents that stand out in recollection more boldly than their apparent value warrants. These reminiscences seem to us still more clearly defined as we progress in Christian Science and learn that it "resolves things into thoughts " ( Science and Health, p.

WITH its God-bestowed power to heal and bless, Christian Science is finding its way into institutions which care for children, some of whom have been taken from the streets of our large cities and sent through the courts. Some teacher or matron who is trying to reflect divine Love, remembers and heeds the Master's admonition, "Feed my lambs.

PERHAPS no other form of virtue has been extolled so much as obedience, for there is no human activity into which it does not enter to some extent, and it is necessary that it should. Obedience and faith go hand in hand.

ONE of the great blessings which Christian Science bestows upon the earnest student of its teachings is the improved sense of progressive activity which comes to him as his mentality gradually expels the material beliefs which comprised to a large extent his former view-point, and he awakens by degrees to the wonders of that spiritual consciousness characterized by the apostle as "the deep things of God. " In this thought-transforming process his concept of time undergoes a very radical change, for the hours that once were spent in toilsome search for intellectual or artistic proficiency, or were wasted, prodigal fashion, in the aimless pursuit of mere amusement, assume the character of multitudes of "golden" moments, the conservation and righteous employment of which do indeed make him "rich toward God.

THAT history repeats itself was never more conclusively proved than in the attitude of many professing Christians toward the healing of disease and sin by Christian Scientists, who look upon it as an essential and perfectly natural part of their religion. One of these unfriendly critics recently said, "I suppose that there are cases of healing accomplished through Christian Science, but no one can make me believe that it is through any good agency," implying in his remark that it must needs be then through some evil power that the good (for healing is certainly good) is wrought.

ALTHOUGH the discovery of Christian Science was in itself an event of supreme importance, its practical significance would have been lost to the world but for certain rare qualifications of leadership which enabled its Discoverer to become the pioneer of a new dispensation. More than one spiritually minded individual in the past had experienced the vision of man as God constitutes and knows him; but it remained for Mrs.

ONE of the inherent tendencies of the finite mind is to make outlines and plans as a basis for future activities. An outline of what it is going to do tomorrow seems necessary to a knowledge of how to proceed today.

AN ever recurring problem with thoughtful men and women, and one seemingly not easy of solution, is the question, Can the evils now going on in the world, with their indescribable presentments of horror and misery, rightfully be ascribed to God? Whatever religionists of other creeds may offer, Christian Scientists unhesitatingly and unequivocally answer, "A thousand times, No!" And they are assured that their instant and emphatic denial of this mistaken sense of Deity is true, for the religious philosophy which has become a large part of their daily thinking makes any other answer quite impossible. They have come to think of God in such a way that an affirmative answer would seem blasphemous.

IN the familiar hymn which begins, "Prayer is the heart's sincere desire" (Hymnal, p. 91), occurs the line, "He enters heaven with prayer.

WHAT a moment that is when we first catch a glimpse of the all-power and all-presence of God, and remember at the same time that His name as well as His nature is Love! This is a divine revelation which comes to every waiting heart. Unless the Christian Scientist is living in daily communion with God, and has come to understand in a measure what is meant when God is spoken of as divine Principle, the temptation is to think that His presence and His power are intermittent and spasmodic.