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Jesus said,"He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. " In reading Jesus' parable of the marriage feast, we learn that they who are invited cannot mingle with the king's guests in the heavenly guest-chamber unless they are clothed upon with the wedding garments of purity and goodness.

The student of Christian Science finds his former concept of God, man, and the universe wholly inadequate to form any basis of salvation from disease or sin; in fact his mental view-point has been completely revolutionized, for he no longer looks to the material senses for evidence or draws any conclusions as to man's immortality from matter or mortal mind. From a false belief in good and evil as commingling, that both matter and spirit are included in the divine purpose, his thought is turned to the recognition of God as the only Mind, the All-in-all of being, the infinite good, expressed through its perfect idea, man and the universe.

Gladstone once said that within the two simple mandatory words, "Unhand me!" is found the entire demand of mankind for progress along the highway of intelligent liberty. In a metaphysical sense these two words voice the cry of humanity in every line of endeavor —educational, professional, industrial, and religious.

We often hear criticism spoken of as one of the evils of which we should beware, lest in some idle moment we indulge in it, but before we reach the conclusion that criticism is necessarily evil, let us inquire more deeply into its province and meaning. Criticism is defined by Webster first, as the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance or production in the fine arts; second, the act of criticizing, or a critical observation, or a detailed examination and review, and finally it is defined as censure.

The Bible—just as we have it— is supreme in that it relates to the subjects of which it treats. We are dependent upon it, and almost alone upon it, for what we know about Christ Jesus, his life and labors, and of the antecedent, cumulative, and contributory forces which made his advent the great central fact of all the world's history.

The goal of every sincere Christian Scientist is perfect demonstration over sin, sickness, and death. We are taught that these are unreal, but it is our task to prove their unreality, and the qualifications necessary to this end are ours by man's natural and divine inheritance.

The genuine Christian strives to trust God. This is the basis and substance of his Christianity.

IT is narrated in the sixteenth chapter of Acts that Paul and Silas, while tarrying at Philippi, were committed to prison charged with disturbing the peace. We also read that as an extra precaution against their escape the jailer thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

THE subject of inherited disease, so called, is one with which all are familiar because of its frequent recognition by modern educational theories, hereditary influence being recognized by medical science as a cause or predisposing influence in disease. Heredity thus forms the topic for many formal discussions in medical societies; it is recognized scientifically in institutions for the treatment of insanity, dipsomania, confirmed inebriety, and degeneracy, and in many books and treatises written by physical scientists, experts, criminologists, and publicists.

THE forty-ninth chapter of Genesis closes the record of Jacob's earthly experiences, and it must have been a wonderful realization of the allness of God and His spiritual idea, man, that came to this faithful patriarch before his departure. Through repentance and patient, persistent effort on his part to overcome sin, he had been delivered many times from sinful beliefs of the flesh which the carnal mind had so often inflicted upon him, and the saving power of Christ, Truth, was always revealed to him through an angelic message.