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The Scriptures abound in parallels. Not always are these readily seen even after their existence is intimated, and in most cases they are long unsuspected.

When the Saviour and husbandman of humanity, gifted as he was with foreknowledge and its correlative power of foretelling all things meet for human ears to hear, paused in the wheatfield, already white and ripe with vegetable richness, he spiritually admonished his Christian students, as he doubtless would the Christian Scientists in this day of harvest. How well he understood the temptations, the procrastinations, the dilatory and shuffling modes and methods of those who were destined to be enlightened when he said, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

" No personal habit," says Huxley, "more surely degrades the conscience and the intellect than blind and unhesitating obedience to unlimited authority. " The full force of these words appeals at once to us, and the more one examines them the more does he become persuaded of their verity.

Mortals have to work for some hard taskmasters, but the worst of all employers is self. Self may be said to be in the moving picture business, and his pay, for those who work for him, is in pictures.

A skilful counterfeiter is sometimes capable of producing a bill or coin which closely imitates the lawful money issued by the government, but as soon as it gets into circulation the discovery of its falsity has become a mere question of time. Clumsier counterfeits are more numerous, and their detection is speedier.

Perhaps no passages in Scripture point more clearly to the fact of immortality or preexistence than do those to be found throughout the seventeenth chapter of John's gospel. By Christian people in general the term immortality has mostly been used as pertaining to life after death rather than to that eternality which covers what mortals call the past and the future.

A Careful study of human nature reveals an inherent disposition to descant upon the subject of evil and a disinclination to magnify the good, although we find in the Bible many admonitions to the contrary. Whence this abnormality so prevalent in the moral and religious world of today? Is it a God-given tendency? Is God in any way responsible for it? Is there any law of His to validate or sustain it? To those who were ready to hear the only logical answer to such queries Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

CONSTANCY , according to Webster, means, in its primary sense, "a standing firm; hence, applied to God and His works; immutability; unalterable continuance; a permanent state. " No one who admits the existence of God and the universe as created by Him, can fail to be struck by the application of this definition to man, who as part of God's "works" is in a condition of "immutability; unalterable continuance; a permanent state.

IN Christian Science we learn to think of God as Spirit, Mind; and that His kingdom is spiritual, infinite, and can be made visible through Mind alone. Human language is of no use in revealing God's kingdom only so far as it expresses the spiritual nature of all things.

THERE have been few if any books in the history of civilization which have had an influence in any way comparable to that of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " A school of literature, philosophy, or religious interpretation may arise and hold sway for several generations, but this is seldom achieved by one person.