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JESUS the Christ was ever directing thought to the realm of the supersensible. He was too wise and too scientific to reckon himself on a level with the physical senses.

THE publication of a new book from the pen of the author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is an event of world wide interest. There is probably no book published in this day, nor any book in the past save one of Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE declares and demonstrates that God, the infinite, omnipotent Mind which was so fully manifested by Christ Jesus, heals the sick today, and is "the savior of the body," to quote St. Paul, as well as the savior, or redeemer, of that human sense which has long been called the soul.

OF the many illuminating passages in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, none is more profoundly significant than the statement that "mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being" ( p.

[Readers of The Christian Science Journal will be interested in the editorial note on the writer of the following article, as it appears in the Table of Contributors to the December (1913) issue of The North American Review: "'A Churchman' is a priest in the Protestant Episcopal church. His work among his own people and his observations of those outside his communion have led him to the conclusions embodied in the present article.

Mrs. Eddy  named her great discovery Christian Science, and in all she writes is seen not only the aspiration, spirituality, and love which long centuries have ascribed to devout Christianity, but also an absolutely correct statement of demonstrable Science.

IN the ages before the advent of Jesus of Nazareth, many had earnestly sought a knowledge of God, and recognizing the value of the demonstrable religion he was promulgating and what it would have meant to their forefathers in their search for truth, Jesus said substantially to those about him, Your fathers would have rejoiced to see my day. He brought to the people "no mere theory, doctrine, or belief" ( Science and Health, p.

IN the thirty-seventh psalm we are encouraged to patient confidence in God by these words: "The meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. " Meekness, or humility, may be defined as freedom from pride, arrogance, and self-righteousness.

IN that assemblage of qualities embraced in our concept of character, kindness, gentleness, and patience may be regarded as simple, homely virtues not capable of rivaling their fellows in that coterie where intellectual brilliancy and much learning may hold us spellbound by their glamour. But though these modest endowments may seem overshadowed by their more conspicuous companions, they nevertheless radiate and glow with a kindly and unfailing light.

IN the Scriptural allegory in Genesis, Adam, the generic type of mortal man, is represented as sentenced by the Lord God to a career of toil and hardship because of his disobedience in tasting the fruit of "the tree of knowledge of good and evil. " In this story we find an intimation that evil has its origin in the recognition of a relative standard of existence.