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IN the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. XX, Sects.

ONENESS of mind in the upper room of consciousness, effected through scientific demonstration, is the marvel of this age. Many minds, many opinions, and diverse ways, is the rule of human belief, based upon personal sense-testimony.

THE time once came when the children of Israel had urgent need to learn a lesson. Left without a leader after the passing away of Joshua, they so lapsed into evil ways that they at last found themselves fugitives in the land of Midian, hiding in dens and caves in the mountains for fear of the depredations of those around them.

IS there a man of whom you never think because you do not see him with your eyes or hear him with your ears? If there be such a man, is he physical and mortal, subject to change and decay like all material nature, whether organic or inorganic; or is he akin to Mind, and therefore spiritual and immortal? If man were nothing but breathing dust, despair and wisdom would be synonyms, all moral codes and ideals would be foolish and baseless fantasies, all moral government a myth and a tyranny. But if we predicate man's immortal being as self-conscious intelligence, the offspring of eternal Mind, then despair becomes a shadow which has fled, and joy, faith, and hope unveil their steadfast constellations.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Oakland, Cal. AS in so many other localities, gratitude for healing was the inspiration for the first established work of Christian Science in Oakland.

To the mortal who turns to the light of Truth as revealed in Christian Science, whether impelled by physical suffering, business embarrassments, unappeasable sorrow, or the desire to satisfy longings and aspirations of the heart, the thought of freedom is ever uppermost. This thought, however, is in some cases coupled with the mental reservation that the healing will be made manifest in matter.

IN Science and Health Mrs. Eddy asks and answers the question: "Why is it more difficult to see a thought than to feel one? Education alone determines the difference.

SOME one has very well said that cheerfulness is a moral tonic. It is invigorating to know a sunny, joyous disposition, and the happy man or woman is welcome everywhere.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE through its holy ministry is not only bringing cure to the sick, spiritual freedom to the sin-enslaved, joy to the heavy-hearted, but it is also performing a wonderful service to mankind by teaching them how disease may be prevented. So long as disease is held to be a condition of matter, men will believe that they are to a large extent helpless before it; but when they learn that disease springs from mental discord of some kind, they see that it can be prevented through spiritual illumination.

WHATEVER may be said pro or con with reference to the practice of materia medica, it is certain that an understanding of Spirit as the only cause, points to an absolutely spiritual practice as the only fulfilment of divine law. Whether or not in our ignorance we begin with a partial reliance upon materiality, the Science of Christianity points to a full reliance upon God, Spirit, as the only substance, and a final demonstration of this fact in the life of the individual is the acme of Christianity.