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TO the earnest Christian Scientist, who pauses appalled before the seemingly modern drift of ingratitude, which temporarily ignores some splendid instance of sudden and obvious healing, there should come speedy comfort and renewed patience, —patience because of the willingness of the Master to trust his finished work to his Father's approbation alone, and comfort because the witness is not a pioneer in his discouragement, nor is ingratitude a modern tendency. The Christian Scientist should be swift in remembering enough of his own past experience with the outworn and the unreal, and be slow, therefore, in his judgment of those whose conduct bears a likeness to his own discarded past.

SIGHT and hearing are faculties of Mind. To understand this clearly is a step toward human redemption.

THE deification and worship of human ancestors formed a part of the religion of the ancients. This practice is still found today in full force among many savage tribes, and in a greatly refined system among certain races of the Orient.

THE student of Christian Science, while working out the problems that confront him, sometimes meets with experiences which are like severe storms, when thought is tempest-tossed; but by steadfastly applying the Principle and fixed rules of Science, the waters are calmed and the sunshine of Truth appears. With this appearing there is always found to be some measure of darkness destroyed, and some clearer glimpse of the eternal facts of being gained.

MORTAL man has been trained through centuries of false education to look to the body for news as to his chances of well-being, ignorant of the fact that the mortal body can image forth only the conditions of the mortal thought bent anxiously upon it. The Christian Scientist learns that the springs of life are in God, divine Mind, that God alone needs to be questioned as to the laws of being, and that the answer is always good.

SEVERAL years ago there lived in the Zuni mountains of New Mexico a whole neighborhood of people who were submitting themselves to the jurisdiction of a court of law, held down in the valley, which was presided over by a justice of the peace inimical to the mountain folk, a man who lost no opportunity to show his enmity to people of the Anglo-Saxon race. The mountaineers could see no way of escape from this situation, which had existed for a long time, since they were far from civilization and it cost much money and loss of time to travel to Albuquerque, where the higher court was held.

WHEN Jesus of Nazareth propounded the problem of human relationship in the four words, "Who are my brethren?" his closest kindred confronted him. His drastic summary of the whole matter in the reply, "Whosoever shall do the will of God," has startled students by its very simplicity.

AMONG the very last verses of the Bible is a message from the life of Jesus, describing him as "the root and the offspring of David. " A hasty glance at the respective careers of these two monumental characters along the line of spiritual advance, finds apparently little or no element in common.

WHAT queer conceits mortals have as to the real meaning and significance of law! We seem to be governed all the time by some kind of law, and yet how little we know about it! How few of us could give a satisfactory answer to the question, What is law? In our human relationships, in our adjustment to atmosphere, climate, occupation, environment, it would seem as though we were involved continuously in a question of law. Beyond the comprehension that law is an intangible force operating in the affairs of men, controlling and governing them, and that it is always accompanied by a penalty of some kind, the general concept of it may be said to be more or less vague.

SCIENCE AND HEALTH tells us (p. 521) that "the harmony and immortality of man are intact.