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EXPERIENCE was once defined as "chiefly mistake," and in so far as earthly experience goes, this definition is apt to be exact; for through the correction of mistakes, humanity elects to learn its lessons. The starting-point of all true experience must necessarily be spiritual.

CHRISTIANITY , as it was understood and practised during the early Christian era, included not only the preaching of the gospel but the healing of the sick, and this healing meant not merely the overcoming of disease and pain, but the overcoming of sorrow, sin, and misery of every character. The healing effect which resulted from an understanding of the gospel taught by Jesus, was in the nature of a proof of the correctness of his teaching, and it was this healing effect which differentiated his teaching from other religious systems then in vogue, and which attracted to it the attention of the civilized world.

AT eight o'clock on a Saturday morning some time ago, a young man visited a Christian Scientist and asked for help. "I am in very deep waters," he said, "and while I have considerable faith in Christian Science, because of both the direct and indirect contact I have had with it, and also because of what I know it is accomplishing in the world at large, still I do not see how it can possibly do much for me at this particular time,—but I want you to treat me.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that man is spiritual, and makes the first chapter of Genesis its authority, because it is there stated that he was made in God's image and likeness, and we know that nothing unspiritual enters into the being of God. By the same rule we know that nothing unlike God could enter into the character of the perfect man.

There is an idea among civilized nations that Christianity must fit itself into civilization or humanity will not feel attracted to it. This opinion seems firmly rooted in many people's minds, for habits and customs simply abound in our every-day life where this belief is in evidence.

In the chapter entitled Glossary, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has defined "church" in both its spiritual signification and its outward expression, but the Sunday school is not directly referred to in Science and Health, nor is it mentioned in the Bible.

It is interesting and profitable for the student of Christian Science to study the accuracy with which Jesus read the thoughts of those with whom he came in contact, as many of these accounts are rich in lessons for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. In Science and Health Mrs.

Perhaps no phase of Christian Science teaching has been more subject to misapprehension and ridicule than has that of "absent treatment," and many honest people have labored under the impression that the treatment of those who are absent from the practitioner is a sort of occult proceeding which, in some measure at least, preys upon the credulity of the ignorant and of those who in their desperation are grasping at straws. Even kindly critics have been known to say that they could understand and believe in the Christian healing of a patient in direct contact with the practitioner, but that the idea of effectual absent treatment imposed too great a tax upon their faith.

Truth , eternally existent and ever drawing nearer and nearer to awakened sense, today announces through Christian Science the great premise that God and His manifestation are all; that God is Mind, and that this Mind is absolute good. The journey from sense to Soul, upon which the students of Christian Science have entered, is simply the mental journey from the major premise of this Science to its ultimate conclusion.

The word intellect is defined in part by the dictionary as "that faculty of the human soul or mind which receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it by the senses. " In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.