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The Christian Scientist is sometimes confronted with the argument that inasmuch as God and His spiritual creation are the only realities of being, there is no occasion for giving special consideration to error's alleged secret methods of working, no necessity for taking up in detail the means by which the baseless falsity of mortal mind purports to advance itself. It is speciously argued that the ground is covered in refuting with the truth such manifestations of false belief as challenge attention in the due course of events; in short, that it is ill-advised to "make so much of animal magnetism.

Until instructed by Christian Science to make practical use of the Scriptural declaration that in God "we live, and move, and have our being," how easily is a mortal's outlook on life, and the state of his health, affected by the atmospheric changes of heat and cold, of storm and sunshine. Taught by materia medica and hygiene to consider himself a victim of circumstances, of which sudden changes in the weather play a very important part, he implicitly believes that a cold wave or a continuation of rain is directly responsible for some ailment from which he may at the time be suffering.

The Greek philosopher Antisthenes founded a sect whose purpose was to find and apply a remedy for the vices, prevailing then as now, of avarice, luxury, and undue ambition, to inculcate a love of virtue, and to bring about simplicity of manners. Surely the ancient philosopher and his sect were inspired by praiseworthy motives! Yet the followers of Antisthenes speedily degenerated, and were finally known as cynics, a term of reproach.

Moses seems to have been the first among men to realize and to demonstrate that there is but one Ego. To him God was the great "I am that I am.

Christian Science , as its name implies, stands for Christianity as well as Science. It can therefore be practised only from a Christian standpoint; that is, in accord with the spirit as well as the letter of the Master's teachings.

CENTURIES before Christ Jesus so practically advised his followers to "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," an Old Testament character had exemplified that aphorism, thereby handing down a valuable lesson in fidelity and patience. Driven from his home through the jealousy and treachery of his brothers, their carnal minds having been enraged because of his spirituality, sold into a shameful slavery, we find Joseph serenely confident in God's goodness, and apparently not unhappy in all with which he had to contend.

ONE of the results of growth in the understanding of Christian Science is a clearer recognition of the privileges and responsibilities of church-membership. When one becomes a church-member, he lifts his eyes beyond his own personal problem, perceiving that it is one with the larger problem of mankind, and with joy begins to demonstrate both outwardly and in his own consciousness his unity with that spiritual church which "is the structure of Truth and Love," and "which affords proof of its utility" (Science and Health,  p.

OWING to the fact that mankind have been reared with and into the belief that man's life is in the physical body, it is small wonder that selfishness and fear have been engendered in human experience. While one looks to the physical body as the seat and circumference of his life, health, and strength, he naturally feels that these are just as limited as is the body; and whenever any sense of limitation is entertained, then the thought of fear is also one's guest.

WHEN out of Love's abundance there comes a cessation of the ordinary routine, a time of refreshment in "green pastures" and "beside the still waters," we may take it gratefully, not so much for the benefit of rest, or change of scene, as for the opportunity it offers for spiritual unfoldment. To a healthy, growing Christian Scientist wider fields of thought and study are ever opening up, but these require a broader margin than the busy day with its manifold demands can give.

TO work is to overcome resistance, and the world is making every effort to reduce that resistance to a minimum. The improved machinery invented, with which to do the world's work, expresses an effort to overcome resistance and to do the work with ease and in the shortest possible time.