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THE emancipation of womankind is today effecting most important changes in social conditions. Though this has been brought about gradually, the slow, almost imperceptible shifting of the status of women has now culminated in a revolt against certain laws hitherto regarded as final, and adequate for all circumstances.

AT a recent Wednesday evening meeting of The Mother Church these words of the Master were read: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned;" also that other command,"Judge righteous judgment;" and the selections from Science and Health included some passages at the beginning of the chapter on Christian Science Practice concerning the Master's scientific treatment of the one known as Mary Magdalene. These readings recalled questions frequently asked as to whether criticism and condemnation of others hinders one's own progress toward health and harmony.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals God as divine Mind, maintaining the existence of all created things. Accepting John's statement that "God is love," Christian Science logically reasons that divine Love is the basis and source of sustenance for all existence.

ALL professed Christians are supposed to be familiar with Paul's words, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. " This naturally presupposes a new outlook upon life, both as regards themselves and others.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE destroys forever the belief that some men and women are divinely favored in personality, character, gifts, or ability. That there are "diversities of gifts" is clearly taught in the Bible, but all are expressions of "the same Spirit.

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.