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IN definition of the term "substance" Mrs. Eddy has said that "Spirit.

WE read in the book of Exodus that a battle once took place between the hosts of Amalek and the children of Israel, as led by Joshua. Moses had gone to the hill-top with "the rod of God" in his hand; "and it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

ON a Saturday afternoon not long ago, a young man who is a professional singer and who had already enrolled himself as a Christian Science student, visited a more experienced Scientist and asked help for what seemed to be a serious throat disorder. Considerably alarmed at the symptoms, he said that he had several times in the past been afflicted in like manner, and that each succeeding attack had been much more severe than the one before it, practically laying him up for from one to three and four weeks.

The impulsive way: To give from impulse as much and as often as love and pity and sensibility prompt. The lazy way: To make a special effort to earn money for benevolent objects by fairs, festivals, etc.

IF there is anything defective or discordant in our life plan, it must be because we have not yet made all things "according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount. " Turning to the passage in Exodus from which these words are quoted, one finds it full of most scrupulously given details and particulars relating to the construction of the tabernacle.

DO we as Christian Scientists realize that there has never been a time since the hour when the revelation of the Science of being came to our revered Leader, when we needed to be more alert, more active or insistent in resisting the aggressive encroachments of seeming error? Do we manifest an understanding capacity for larger, better, and more lasting work? Do we ascend daily "into the hill of the Lord," praying for more wisdom, greater humility, more unselfed devotion to our beloved cause? Christian Scientists do not live for themselves. Every pain and ache overcome, every business problem worked out, every grief and sorrow assuaged, through the application of the Principle and rule taught in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," makes our brother's burden that much lighter, and helps humanity the world over.

A STUDY of those chapters in the first three gospels which narrate the healing of the lunatic child is deeply interesting from the Christian Science view-point. This remarkable healing follows close upon the transfiguration of Christ Jesus, and the failure of the disciples to heal the boy is fully explained by the events which immediately follow this demonstration of divine power by the great Teacher.

ONE of the most pathetic phases of human endeavor is found in the persistent search for God, and in spite of the fact that apparently most of the effort expended in this search has been fruitless, it is continued. Numerous philosophies and religions, with the avowed and sincere purpose of revealing God to man, have come into being, flourished and decayed.

IT is often and most truly remarked that one of the chief characteristics of Christian Science is its gradual unfoldment to human apprehension. When first presented to the earnest seeker after Truth, it appears to him as a newly formed rosebud, which gives only a faint outward promise of its marvelous possibilities.

FROM what we are able to gather concerning the earlier life of Jesus of Nazareth, it is evident that his all-absorbing purpose was to know God, to realize in the fullest sense man's relationship to "the Father. " By reason of his spiritual-mindedness he perceived that God is Spirit.