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THE discovery that the human race lives in a universe of Mind and not, as the physical senses would have it, in a material world, has different effects on different individuals. As a rule, however, men and women catch at first only a very faint glimpse of the absolute Science of Life, the Science of Mind, and consequently fail to comprehend the measure of patient endeavor and self-purgation required before its Principle and rules can be demonstrated satisfactorily.

IT has been said of Christian Science that it is the most progressive thing in the world. This admitted, it follows that Christian Scientists must be progressive people, and as Christian Science is a religion of works rather than of profession, its activity must necessarily be progressive.

IN Science and Health, page 19 , Mrs. Eddy writes, "Jesus aided in reconciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus' teachings, and this truer sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit,—the law of divine Love.

IN the problem of overcoming hatred, antipathy, resentment, or any one of the myriad forms of error, the first step of the Christian Science student is of course to obey the Scriptural injunction, "First cast out the beam out of thine own eye,"— to lay bare his own heart to the light of Truth, that any lurking error of envy, jealousy, egotism, self-righteousness, self-love, self-ignorance, etc. , be not permitted to masquerade as a sense of error in his brother.

AT the time when people said one to another, "Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?" Jesus of Nazareth declared the right way of thinking when he said, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. " The very persons who were planning how they might destroy our Master, believed theoretically in their own law which forbade killing, since "whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.

THERE are few persons who do not hope to attain greater happiness and more enduring harmony than they now enjoy. Some merely hope for a favorable turn of the wheel of fortune, while others believe they know what is necessary to bring about the desired result and they labor to that end.

THE study of Christian Science undoubtedly helps us to fit together the various pieces of the puzzle of human existence, and they have to be placed aright before they can form an harmonious whole. This is simplified, in great measure, by the constant application of spiritual understanding to each thought and deed.

THE familiar illustration which the Master gave of the efficacy of even a little faith in God, has comforted and inspired many a pilgrim on his journey heavenward; but only the plea of human inadequacy would assume that Jesus intended the mustard-seed, "the least of all seeds," to symbolize the standard of a Christian's faith. He had already likened the kingdom of heaven to this seed in its wonderful productiveness, so that his simile evidently did not refer to the mustard-seed itself, but to the results "when it is sown.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Leeds, England THE seed of Christian Science which very soon grew into First Church of Christ, Scientist, Leeds, was planted toward the end of 1902, and in September, 1904, Sunday services were started in a private house. In about a year, finding it impossible to accommodate the people, it was decided to secure larger quarters.

OF all the phantoms that worry and weary mankind, perhaps none is more inconsistent with the concept of a just God and a scientific universe than the fear of lack of the necessities of existence. Nevertheless all around us we see men and women struggling to "eke out a livelihood," many of them haunted continually by the thought that want may overwhelm them despite their best efforts; that cherished children may suffer from lack of food, manhood's strength waste from want, and the hoary-haired father or mother sink in sorrow from lack of sustenance.