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Christian Science is distinctively a religion of doing, not saying. It is attracting attention throughout the civilized world because it is healing sickness according to gospel methods, something which others have for centuries failed to do.

On page 402 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake its corporeal, structural, and material basis, when immortal Mind and its formations will be apprehended in Science, and material beliefs will not interfere with spiritual facts.

Entirely apart from the question of physical healing, it is generally conceded that Christian Science produces a happy and contented mentality, that it destroys fear and makes people loving and kind. When we add to this the fact that it has healed many sick people who had previously been unable to find relief under other systems, that it has cured many of the drug habit and the liquor habit, has restored harmony in many homes which were discordant, and has given hope and courage to people who were discouraged, it is easy to understand why it has spread with such wonderful rapidity.

PROBABLY every student of Christian Science, quite early in his experience, feels that he has never really known how to pray, and echoes the cry of the disciples to their Master, "Lord, teach us to pray. " In the beautiful chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, Mrs.

UPON coming into Christian Science, our false concepts of life and happiness undergo so gradual a change that one is not fully aware of the mighty work of this leaven of Truth, until suddenly some passage in the Scriptures or in the Christian Science literature stands out illumined, and in its light we see the distance which we have traveled in our journey from sense to Soul. At such moments discouragement at our seeming slowness in rising out of material conditions vanishes, because we are rejoicing in actual accomplishment instead of wearily contemplating the daily problem; and in this rejoicing more and more of the light of divine Truth is filling our consciousness.

EVERY one who accepts Christian Science can but be deeply impressed with the magnitude of the truth that a perfect God has made man in His image. This truth may come as gently as a June dawn; it may come as the reward of years of eager, weary search, or it may come in a sudden, sense-blinding vision as it came to Saul on the Damascus road, destroying our belief in the material and opening our eyes to the spiritual.

OVER the ice-locked earth the balmy breath of spring has sent its insistent message, and with all but imperceptible stir the wonder of growth in response to the ceaseless divine summoning again begins its renewed manifestation before our eyes. Once more is enacted the entrancing drama of the progress of the year through its successive scenes of birth, awakening, growth, maturity, decay, until at length the curtain falls upon its close.

IN all ages there have been those whose keen vision has to some extent penetrated through their material surroundings, enabling them to discern something of the truth of being. The knowledge thus gained has imparted to their existence an element of certainty, surety, and continuity, the faith attained being to them indeed "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

THE habit of censure implies a belief in something apart from good, and, whether humanly just or unjust, censure and all its attributes can never be found in the realm of reality, where all is blameless perfection. We learn in Christian Science that the tender, loving Father has glorified His only begotten child with the reflection of His perfect selfhood, therefore to condemn man is in the same breath to condemn God.

NO teaching of Christian Science is more beautiful and satisfying than that concerning man. The apostle John once wrote, "If a man say, I love God, "and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" and from the old point of view this seemed "an hard saying" indeed.