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THE force of our Master's benediction upon them "that mourn," lies in the idea conveyed by the word "comforted ;" but mortals are so prone to reverse spiritual ideas and look at all things materially, that they too frequently miss the comfort because attention is centered upon the mourning, failing to see that in order to experience the former we must forsake the latter. The thought of mourning always brings with it a sense of loss, and for this reason we have formed the habit of classifying as mourners only those people whose dearest earthly ties have been sundered.

ALTHOUGH the earthly life of Jesus was brief, it is rightly regarded as the most complete life known or conceivable, as the one pure ideal of the human race. Jesus overcame sin, disease, and death while in the world, and departed from it fully assured that he had done all things well, and left undone nothing that concerned his mission.

THE illumination of the understanding which accompanies the study of Christian Science discloses the antipodal nature of Truth and error, of the true creation and the material counterfeit. Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that substance, law, causation, and consciousness are forever in and of Spirit, and that the aspect of materiality, imperfection, and evil with which things seem invested, is of logical necessity transient, and foreign to the universe as it actually exists. This being the case, the transformation of earthly conditions, foretold by Jesus and depicted by St.

WHEN Jesus said to his followers, "Ye are the light of the world," he did not refer to any human quality or characteristic, but to the spiritual understanding which had begun to dispel the darkness of material belief and to make plain the way of salvation from all evil. For centuries the people had been watching and waiting for that which would deliver them from the bondage of the oppressor.

THERE is one infallible test by which a true follower of the Christ may be distinguished from those who are followers in name only, and it is one upon which perfect reliance may be placed, since it was given to us by Christ Jesus himself,—"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. " Through the dust and din of nineteen centuries has come down to us this message of the Christ, profound in wisdom, unanswerable in argument, yet so sweetly simple that "the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein ;" for we all recognize love whenever and wherever we find it.

WE are told in Matthew's account of the cleansing of the temple, that after Jesus had cast out "them that sold and bought," "the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. " The healing is described as following immediately upon the cleansing, and thus a lesson is conveyed to every practical Christian.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Brooklyn, N. Y.

WHY do you call evil error?" asks the newcomer in Christian Science. "Evil appears to us just as often as good, and often more poignantly.

IF our concept of love does not embrace something of the divine, if it is not pure, unselfish, uplifting, and compassionate, it is not love but its counterfeit. Mrs.