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ALL Christians and Bible students necessarily feel a deep interest in the history of the Bible, the Bible of our fathers, the Bible of today, which has been so marvelously preserved and transmitted through ages of spiritual darkness and ignorance, religious intolerance, and persecution of Truth's representatives and revelators. Rising above the mists of obscurity in which at certain periods the Scriptures seem, according to material evidence, to have been lost, shining through the abstruseness of ancient languages, imperfect translations, and inaccurate revisions, "the inspired Word of the Bible" ( Science and Health, p.

THERE is a certain class of thinkers who affect to believe that Christian Science has no valid title to the term "Science" as applied to Christianity. To a materialistic philosophy science and religion are incompatible.

AN experience of a few years ago has often proved helpful in explaining to inquirers why a working knowledge of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is requisite to the healing of bodily ills, as it is frequently asked why it is that theologians have been unable to demonstrate the truths of the Bible to the practical benefit of mankind, after so many years of study, while a young student of the Bible, with the help of Science and Health is able to demonstrate, at least to some degree, that the Bible is a scientific work. The experience above referred to was this: The writer, in company with another engineer, was making a reconnoissance for a railroad through a rather inaccessible portion of Arizona, and found the government topographical maps of great aid, as the elevation above the sea level has been determined and indicated by very fine lines.

IT is reported that as Jesus was on his way to the house of Jairus, at the request of this ruler of the synagogue, in order to heal his daughter, a certain woman who had spent all her living in a vain effort to be healed of a debilitating and chronic malady, reached forth and touched the hem of his garment, saying within herself, "If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. " This touch of the woman was a reaching forth, an awakening from hopelessness and despair.

WHEN St. Paul wrote, "We should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter;" also, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage," he voiced his affection for the democracy of the New Testament as opposed to the theocracy of the Old Testament, and defined the meaning of these terms.

THE wonderful spiritual discernment of Mrs. Eddy and her practical judgment concerning the application of spiritual verities to human needs, are well illustrated in her definition of "church" on page 583 of Science and Health.

IMPLANTED deep within the heart of every one, whether it lies dormant or burns with earnest zeal, is the intuitive desire for progress. So great does this desire sometimes become that out of its very intensity is born the fear of retrogression.

THE human mind is distinctly experimental in its methods. This is proof positive that it is not guided or controlled by an unerring Principle.

THE exigencies of human experience are so numerous and so varied in character that there is scarcely a time when mortal man does not feel that he is confronted by some serious problem which requires a speedy solution. At times the demands are so many and so urgent that one is tempted either to yield to discouragement or to take refuge in careless indifference.

THE idea expressed by the word "consciousness" seems to be only partially understood by mankind in general. If a consensus of opinion were taken among those not instructed in Christian Science, it would probably appear that many regard consciousness as something that relates to sense perception, and it may be profitable to consider this opinion with the view of pointing out wherein it falls short.