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" What's in a name?" A name has indeed but little meaning unless it expresses the essential qualities of the person or thing to which it is applied. The poetic feeling of a race frequently finds expression in the naming of people and places.

It is a common misconception among people who ought to know better, that Christian Science involves the use of suggestion. In a recent magazine article a doctor of divinity credited Christian Science with beneficent results, but accounted for them in this way.

It is interesting in the midst of the many different church organizations to recall that the Master neither established an organization nor appointed any officers in the modern sense of the word. "Jesus established his church," our Leader writes, "and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing.

There are few portions of any country which are entirely level. For this reason a journey from one place to another usually necessitates going uphill and down-hill; but in spite of these ups and downs the traveler is moving onward.

THERE have recently appeared in the Christian Science periodicals several articles dealing with the subject of man's supply and referring to the story of Elisha and the widow who came for help in overcoming a great sense of lack. The problem of limitation, and particularly financial limitation, is one that may be said to come to all, so the experience of one student of Christian Science and the line of reasoning which led to the beginning of the solution of this problem may be of help to others.

REVERENCE is a comely grace. When in the presence of some one whom we love and respect, we are naturally courteous, considerate, reverent, and it is well for us to remember that divine Love, surpassing all in wisdom, beauty, and grandeur, is ever present.

NEHEMIAH'S history can but furnish a helpful lesson in building up the consciousness in Truth, for we read that his desire became strong to restore the walls of Jerusalem, the city of his fathers, and to honor the one God, and that he accomplished his noble purpose by knowing how to work. First and always he knew that it was God's work he was doing, so there was no faltering in him, nor were there any backward glances or mistakes.

WHAT have not men sacrificed to forward human freedom ! From earliest recorded times few appeals have awakened a warmer response in the human breast or stirred men to more eager action than the plea for liberty. Thrilled by the centuries of accumulated sentiment with which that word is charged, men have gladly forsaken all to follow phantoms that promised freedom.

IN the twenty-eighth chapter of Genesis, wherein is told the story of Jacob's vision, the earliest mention of "the house of God" in the Scriptures is found. It will be remembered that Jacob was on his way from Beer-sheba to Padan-aram when he stopped for the night at Luz.

AN attempt to mix Spirit and matter in religious teaching has marked the religious history of the centuries. The church has formulated as its basic statement one God, one creator or cause, the infinite Spirit.