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IN depicting the rise and growth of a church whose marvelous advance is unique even among the wonders of modern progress, it is impossible to do more than touch upon its salient features, though Mrs. Eddy has epitomized the Christian Science movement in her spiritual definition of "Church," as given in the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

IT is sometimes asked why, if the life and teachings of Christ Jesus were divinely inspired and were intended to show to mortals the way of salvation and to bring about the regeneration of mankind, the path which he indicated should have been missed and primitive Christianity have floundered into the bog of misunderstanding so comparatively soon after the termination of the Way-shower's earthly career. Why was this seeming failure permitted; why was the beacon-light allowed to become obscured to a degree which, although not amounting to actual extinction, nevertheless occasioned a dimness which served to accentuate rather than to illumine the all-pervading gloom? The answer to the foregoing question is suggested by a word in the question itself.

IN the account of Jesus' life as given in the four gospels, we often read that when a season of trial confronted him, he ascended up into a mountain and there engaged in communion with the Father. It behooves us, therefore, to follow the example of the Wayshower, and before beginning any work of importance to seek that uplifted state of consciousness which enables us to commune intelligently with the one Mind.

THE American daily press has recently had a good deal to say concerning the twenty greatest men who have "made the world what it is. " Following the first announced list have appeared revised lists made by prominent people who dissent more or less from the views expressed by the compiler of the initial score.

IN Christian healing the instantaneous demonstration has always made men marvel, some at the understanding of man, all at the power of God. In the healing work of Christ Jesus the immediate answer to his call on Truth was invariable, the one exception of the progressive healing of the blind man proving the rule.

THE twenty-third Psalm has become especially dear to the adherents of Christian Science, because of its clear and inspired restatement by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, where she inserts the word "Love" with such wonderful effect.

NO traveler who has found pause, however brief, within the university city of Oxford, can have failed to visit the magnificent Shelley memorial at University College. The first impression is one of revolt against that arrogance of death which is proclaimed in every contour of the recumbent form contemptuously hurled ashore by the waves.

STUDENTS of Christian Science would do well to heed the warning contained in our Master's words to his disciples: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. " Often when inquirers come, desiring to know more of the teachings of Christian Science, they are confused and frightened by some unwise remarks made by those who are well acquainted with the letter of Science, but who have not sufficiently imbibed the spirit of love and wisdom to know just how much the beginner is able to bear.

THE Bible tells us that a thousand years are as a day and a day as a thousand years in the sight of God. In modern speech this means that our finite sense of time is unknown to God.

THE unerring example of Christ Jesus in the demonstration of the fundamental truths which constitute the Science of being, furnishes the true model for Christian Science practice. Through the denial of the testimony o material sense and the recognition and understanding that the evidence of spiritual sense alone is real and eternal, Jesus healed the sick and destroyed sin, thereby removing the sad consequences of sin.