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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.

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.