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THE fallibility of human knowledge is the lament of the ages; yet the thirst of intellect has based the highest achievements of the race, for despite the siren lure of personal attainment, which has wrecked many a brave quest, the honest desire for truth, and truth alone, has ever pervaded the search for satisfying knowledge. Seeking for results, we find that physical science, perplexed by many and deep questionings, confesses mind beyond its scope; while no system of ethics or metaphysics has convincingly reduced to law the phenomena of consciousness.

WHEN ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass. " These are the words which Christ Jesus once spoke to his disciples in connection with the ultimate utter destruction of all things material.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE occupies its distinctive position among the Christian denominations solely because it is reducing to practice the teaching of God's infinitude. While the churches are mainly agreed that this teaching is true, there has been little disposition to apply it literally to the problems of human existence, notwithstanding that only through such application can the kingdom of God be brought to the human consciousness.

Man  lives by divine decree. He is created, governed, supported, and controlled in accord with the law of God.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read that God determined the name and nature of all His ideas, and many times it is declared, "God saw that it was good. " Then in the allegory in the second chapter, we read that Adam gave names to all the creatures, these names standing for qualities which were not to be found in the divine creation.

On page 463 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy has written,"The material physician gropes among phenomena, which fluctuate every instant under influences not embraced in his diagnosis.

As illumined by the teachings of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, every honest seeker after truth has in the Bible an unerring guide and counselor, an infallible remedy for every discordant condition, physical, mental, or moral.

Many who are not Christian Scientists, who have never seen or admitted any demonstration of healing, find it difficult to accept its teachings because these do not appeal to their common sense. Being contrary to "fact," as such persons would claim, they seem unreasonable, and hence they are not accepted.

There are a number of recognized Christian virtues, such as unselfishness, meekness, and self sacrifice, which are not only very unpopular with the world at large, but which, when practised from the human standpoint, seem actually to encourage or even to produce the opposite traits in others. Probably we all have among our acquaintances at least one faithful, unselfish person whose attitude we feel opens the way for the stubbornness and self-will of some bosom companion and the frequent imposition of people in general.

The narrative in the twenty first chapter of St. John's gospel takes us back to the scene and circumstances of the early ministry of Jesus.