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THERE is in the British Museum in London a cast of a basalt stele, discovered in recent times among the ruins of Babylon, inscribed in ancient Babylonian characters, bearing the text of a code of laws drawn up about twenty-two hundred years before Christ, by Khammurabi, king of Babylon. This code of laws was based upon a large number of still more ancient laws and customs which had been in use for centuries.

IN Science and Health we read that "whatever blesses one blesses all" ( p. 206 ); and what a joy it is to have proof of this truth in one's own experience, to learn that under the government of divine Principle what results in the best good to one also meets the need of another.

IN Christian Science we learn that a condition of thought which seems to separate man from his Maker is indigenous to the material concept of existence and handicaps one at every turn. It makes him subservient to family traditions and associations, to inherited tendencies, to various physical weaknesses, to insufficient wealth or to undesirable abundance, to race, age, history.

THERE is something inherently good in human consciousness which craves expression. To finite sense one may appear to rejoice in iniquity, impurity, and untruth, but penetrate the mask of indifference and pretension and you will find one who is weary of his sin and failures.

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST once said to one who was bowed by sickness and sorrow, "Gain the spirit of giving, and soon you will say it is sweet to live. " "But I have no money to give away," was the sad reply.

STRANGE as it may seem, Christian people in their thought have always given more or less power to evil. No matter how firmly they may have declared themselves to believe God to be omnipotent, yet their fear of evil has deprived them of man's God-given dominion over error.

ONE of the commonest phases of limitation to which mortals submit unresistingly is the so-called law of arrested development. On the one hand we may behold stunted and imperfect bodies, from whose eyes look out rebellious and imprisoned mortals, groping vainly for a solution to their age-long problem; on the other, we are confronted by those of attractive and well-nigh perfect physique, whose blank, unseeing stare attests mental vacuity.

THE vivid description in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, in which "the coming of the Son of man" is linked with an appalling array of tragic events, has given rise to no end of speculation and controversy among theologians. Interpreted materially, the scenes portrayed in this word-picture seem to disclose the avenging hand of a God of wrath.

A TYPEWRITTEN paper, unsigned, but purporting to be part of the association address of a teacher of Christian Science, was once handed to the writer of this article by a student of the same teacher. As I had always had the utmost respect for the understanding of Christian Science which this teacher possessed, the paper was accepted eagerly.

THE remarkable discrepancy evident on the part of individuals and nations between their profession and practice of Christianity, indicates a profound ignorance of or indifference to the nature and demands of Christ's teachings, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the general attitude toward what is called evil. The great Teacher said of the devil, the supposed personification of evil, "There is no truth in him;" but some professed Christians of today, assuming to be wiser than their Master, argue that it is folly to denounce evil as a lie, not realizing that by believing it they are joining in the greatest folly of all the ages.