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"THESE ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. " How fresh the words of the Master always are! Though they have filtered down through nineteen centuries of human thought, they read as if spoken into our very ears.

" THY gentleness hath made me great," sang David; and his saying might be rephrased, The knowledge of Thy gentleness hath made me great. It is somewhat surprising that these words should come from the stalwart warrior king.

Never was there a time when the fine aspirations of the young manhood and young womanhood of our country needed a more inspiring and direct Christian leadership. The indications of this need lie open to our sight on every side.

THE history of the search for truth is the history of the world's progress. Men have always been asking the why and the wherefore about existence, and these queries have formed the theme of philosophers throughout the ages.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the attempt to make practical in the twentieth century the religion which Jesus of Nazareth preached and practised in the first century. This religion was something more than a mere transcendental altruism doomed to be relegated in practise, as the wise men according to the flesh have decreed of the Sermon on the Mount, to the realm of the unattainable.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that man is the infinite idea which expresses the nature and activity of infinite Mind. Words, human language, are spoken or written symbols used to express ideas.

FOR unnumbered people Christian Science has awakened an entirely new interest in the Parousia, the so called second coming of Christ and the establishment of his kingdom and rule among men. In discussing this question in the light of the Master's teaching, eschatologists and Bible critics in general have, roughly speaking, ranged themselves into two schools of thought, holding in most essentials opposite views on the subject.

THE Christian Scientist takes "the inspired Word of the Bible" as his "sufficient guide to eternal Life" ( Science and Health, p. 497 ), and his study of the Scriptures in the light thrown upon them by the text-book of Christian Science, reveals many lessons for his help and guidance among the narratives of the Old Testament, which are not usually so easily understood as those in the New.

THE word "charity" and its derivatives, "charitable," etc. , seem nowadays to be almost wholly restricted to that character of benevolence which consists in almsgiving.

FROM under the curling shingles of a garret the writer once drew forth a plaything, forgotten by children whom the voice of decades had called from their fun into fields of purpose; it was an old dust-encrusted shell, a Triton's horn, within whose chambers generations of alert spiders had draped the gossamer tapestries of their looms. From its obscurity it was carried into the sunlight and cleansed of its gray wrappings of dust and web, till each delicate whorl and shimmering cell was opalescent with original beauty.