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Many have been comforted by the reassuring and oft-quoted words from Revelation, "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. " Surely there is no more eagerly expected or more joyfully accepted statement than this message, announcing to the tortured sense with the tone of conviction, "Now is come salvation, and strength.

There is sure to come a time in the experience of each and every individual when a ray of spiritual Truth appears, and human consciousness is so touched with the message of the Christ that it begins in some degree to recognize the meaning of a present and living Saviour. Thought turns spontaneously to the light, and hope is stimulated with the bright prospect of that freedom and peace which personal sense and human systems deny.

The very sunshine of God's mercy, warm, bright, gentle, vital as with the breath of spring, touches with healing the troubled thought of that human consciousness which catches something of the spiritual signification, as interpreted by Christian Science, of the words, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. " "All things work together for good," said Paul.

While Christian Scientists frequently quote, as their authority for healing sickness and sin, the words of Jesus, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," they also quote, as setting forth the promise of Christian Science, his familiar statement, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " Sometimes, however, we fail to give proper significance to the first word in the verse, the conjunction "and," which is really very essential because it makes this knowledge of the truth which makes "free" contingent on something preceding this verse.

According to the dictionaries, solitude and loneliness are synonymous terms, but when examined under the lens of metaphysics their difference is seen to be antithetical. This contrast is emphasized by a comparison of their definitions.

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.