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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.

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.