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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.

PERHAPS there is no verse in the Pentateuch more often quoted or more helpful to many, than the ninth verse of the first chapter of Joshua: "Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. " Reading this verse in connection with the New Testament use of the word Immanuel, "God with us," and the Christian Science revelation that God — "the all knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all wise, all-loving, and eternal" ( Science and Health, p.

WITH the anticipation of getting anything, there is generally a provision made for its reception as well as for its care. If it is a new piece of furniture, the housewife decides where it shall be put, and prepares a proper place for it by rearranging, perchance, all the furniture of the room.

THE declaration of Scripture that man is created in God's image and likeness, is the fundamental idea of Christian Science. Mortal man, so called, is simply a mortal and material belief about God's man.

ON page 9 of "Christian Science versus Pantheism" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Is there a religion under the sun that hath demonstrated one God and the four first rules pertaining thereto, namely, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me;' 'Love thy neighbor as thyself;' 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect;' 'Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

HE had been waiting a long time for his healing—this man who outlined. In fact, we are told that for thirty and eight years he had practically lain in one spot with his eyes fixed on the one place from which he believed his healing was to come; but it had never come.

" MANY are the afflictions of the righteous," says the Scripture, "but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. " Yet so prone are mankind to look on the wrong side of things that, instead of rejoicing over the promise of God's deliverance, we too frequently spend the time bemoaning our troubles.

ON page 228 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy states that "heredity is a prolific subject for mortal belief to pin theories upon; but if we learn that nothing is real but the right, we shall have no dangerous inheritances, and fleshly ills will disappear.