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While concerned only about earthly life, we center our thought upon prolonging it. Hemmed around by the sense of material limitation voiced so pathetically by the psalmist, mortals aim at reaching at least forescore years, though they admit that such an age may be attended by "labor and sorrow," after which they are to be "cut off" and "fly away.

The neophyte in Christian Science is very apt to take too many things for granted. With a hastily acquired intellectual grasp of the letter of Science, he may essay to solve certain problems which an experienced worker would hesitate to touch.

WE who have turned to the "inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life" ( Science and Health, p. 497 ), as illumined through the teachings of Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are sometimes asked this question: How do you know you were healed of a certain disease through the application of Christian Science, when you were not able to diagnose your own case and could not be sure that you had a given malady? From a strictly materiel medica standpoint this query might on its face appear to carry some weight, as all diagnoses so called are based on the theory that certain physical symptoms indicate particular ailments; but even from this assumption as a working basis for tabulating diseases and codifying the material laws supposed to govern such cases, it is an incontrovertible fact that a very large proportion of all those who come to Christian Science for help have either been labeled with asserted diseases by the diagnoses of physicians, or they think they have this ailment or that, through the law of association. It is little cause for surprise, therefore, when a patient has been healed in Christian Science of a so-called diagnosed disease, that he should be only too glad to speak of it, and that Christian Science should very properly get the credit for the cure.

THERE is a poem by Schiller called "Ideals," which is perhaps the most striking expression in human language of the disappointment of mortal existence on the whole, —of the fading away one by one of the glittering hopes of youth, of the loss in the gray evening of realization of the rosy colors of promise seen in the early dawn,—everything a faithless dream except "friendship" and "work. " Now, by the aid of Christian Science one can see, though perhaps dimly at first, that the ideal is the only verity, and that even friendship and work are simply utilized by mortal mind in its effort to create a safe and happy refuge for the future, from the apparent world of facts in which mortal man lives.

THE history of Abraham, who won the royal title "the Friend of God," is the record of one who trusted God implicitly because he perceived that causation was spiritual. The eyes of his understanding were opened, and belief thus became faith.

THE study of Christian Science, coupled with earnest and sincere effort to conform to its teachings, results in a mighty mental revolution, an overturning of the established order of thinking and the acceptance of a new standard. At first the inquirer is buoyed up by the hope that God will heal him, whether his sickness be physical, mental, or moral, and this hope grows into faith as a faint glimpse of the truth taught in Christian Science is grasped.

NO human ingenuity can safely guard mankind on the way from sense to Soul. The attempt to rely upon the mind which Paul calls "carnal," and which Mrs.

IN the essential nature of things, one mistake is just as void of truth as another, although, because of their seeming larger proportions, some may occupy more of one's thought and attention. The juvenile scholar grappling with his first mathematical problem, and the more advanced student in high school or university, are working to demonstrate the same fundamentals, and are encountering practically the same difficulties, the difference being chiefly one of magnitude.

THERE are some five hundred and seventy-two direct references to Jesus of Nazareth in Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," alone, without counting those to the Christ.