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IN directing organized industry to its highest efficiency, scientific management makes the elimination of time-waste one of its chief points of reform. No disposal of this problem can be thoroughly scientific, however, which does not take account of the fundamental nature of its raw material, the passing hour.

TO many students, Christian Science presents a paradox. It has beckoned them by its promises of freedom and joy.

According to material belief, man is in bondage to matter. Health is compassed by disease, strength by weakness, thought by the gray matter called brain, and life itself by death.

The word "demonstration" is perhaps more frequently used by Christian Scientists than any other, and sometimes, it must be assumed, without any very clear understanding of its meaning. In no other one thing has our Leader been more insistent, both by precept and example, than in the accurate use of words, realizing, no doubt, that inaccuracy implies lack of true understanding, and that such lack in its turn will probably result in a misapprehension, or possibly in a misuse of that quality or function which the word is meant to express.

When nearing the close of that wonderful address to the eleven disciples delivered after the last supper and just before his trial and crucifixion, the Master told them that the object of his admonitions was to give them peace. Then he added these encouraging words: "In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (Rev.

The Christian world is agreed, that of all the past has bequeathed to the present, and of all the present is privileged to bestow upon the future, the Bible is preeminent, holding, as it ever has and does, priceless blessings for the generations of mankind following each other adown the ages,—a veritable storehouse of the most vital truths touching their well-being. While it might be difficult, in view of the differing degrees of progress from sense to Soul, to say which of the mighty statements of truth in the Bible is most pregnant with immediate helpfulness to the individual, yet there is one which, in its rebuke to mortal procrastination, in its sharp reproof to the persistence of error, speaks to one and all when it says, in the prophetic words of Isaiah, "Unto me every knee shall bow.

The crowd grows in numbers as the time draws near for the hospital gates to be opened. The midday sun is lighting up this and other streets of the great city.

From early childhood the writer has been familiar with the Bible stories, their simple language far outweighing the fascinating romances of the famed "Arabian Nights' Entertainments" and other tales dear to the youthful heart. Among the best-loved was the story of Moses, and as with growth has come greater ability to recognize the lessons in this divinely directed career, interest has increased.

Now that nearly every American legislature has been asked to forbid the practice of Christian Science and has refused, a bill expressly directed against the practice of this religion is seldom introduced. The commonest bill is one usually entitled, "A bill for an act to regulate the practice of medicine.

In a well-loved psalm King David proclaims, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. " God, he declares, is his shepherd; therefore, he cannot want.