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THE uncertainty of conclusions based upon circumstantial evidence is familiar to the average person, and numberless are the instances known to lawyers where the application of the supposed scientific rule of proof by circumstances has been anything but sure in its nature and just in its effect. Much of legal anecdote rests upon the uncertainty of circumstantial evidence, and it would be harrowing to enumerate the cases in history where judgments which have been carried to execution have subsequently appeared to have proceeded from false premises.

IN the twentieth chapter of the second book of Kings we read that King Hezekiah, who seemed to be sick unto death, was given this command through the prophet Isaiah: "Set thine house in order. " Being thus thoroughly aroused to his condition, he prayed to God, and as a result the prophet brought him this message: "Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee.

THE first glad impulse of those set free from sin and sickness through Christian Science is the desire to pass the healing cup to others. This outgoing of loving gratitude forms the endless chain which is linking the world in a vital consciousness of the fatherhood and motherhood of God, and the brotherhood and sisterhood of man.

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.