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ON first coming into Christian Science, one feels a great sense of uncertainty as to the correctness of his own judgment in deciding what is right and what is wrong. At this point he is in danger of adopting some other person's sense of what is right before he has become so impregnated with the truths of Christian Science that he has learned in some measure to be sure as to what Principle demands.

IN response to a request from one who seemed interested in Christian Science, a copy of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was supplied him, and after some days the book was returned with the comment that to this inquirer Christian Science seemed but cold comfort; that he did not propose to believe in it until he could see the dead raised. Over nineteen hundred years ago the Master said substantially that if people did not believe the works which he did, neither would they believe though one rose from the dead.

Prophets are divisible into two main classes, the prophet pessimist and the prophet optimist. The reason why the prophet is without honor in his own country is because pessimism is the key-note of many prophecies, and no person is more exasperating than the friend whose assertive "I told you so" merely pours corrosive sublimate upon the sores of defeat.

EVER since our schooldays the achievements of great men have been held up to us as examples of what we may accomplish if we will only make the most of our opportunities. The fact that the world's greatest benefactors started in very humble walks of life and were often obliged to reckon with poverty, discouragement, neglect, lack of appreciation, abuse and even violent opposition, to say nothing of a host of other negative factors, is emphasized to magnify their triumphs and to encourage us to meet with an equable mind the difficulties we have to face.

MAN'S individual being is spiritual. By individual is meant that which cannot be divided into component parts.

IT has been a novel spectacle to the world to see a woman in a position of leadership in a great religious movement. Through the centuries now and again some man has risen who has led a religious reform or added to the sum of spiritual understanding by emphasizing a phase of truth that had hitherto been neglected.

Character is the flower of manhood; it is the perfect conformity of the will of man to the will of God, the coincidence in human experience of Principle and practice. Character alone is undying.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science, the revelation included far more than merely finding out for herself how Christ Jesus healed the sick: it also embraced the idea that the kingdom of heaven would be appreciably advanced on earth by teaching others how this is done.

THROUGH the conscientious and consecrated study of the teachings of Christian Science, that wonderful revelation which has come to the world through Mrs. Eddy, a deep moral and religious change takes place in human consciousness, an unparalleled Christianly ethical uplift, for consciousness is led out of the bondage of material thinking upward into the liberty of life in Spirit.

THE true and therefore practical Christian religion makes its appeal to our highest reason, ideals, sentiments, hopes, aspirations, faith, incentives, emotions. If it made its appeal to our reason only, it would be as bare and barren as an empty eggshell.