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THE word "law" conveys to the average individual a sense of hardness, sternness, an unbending force that pursues and punishes its transgressors remorselessly, with eyes blind to all alleviating circumstances. This attitude toward law is begotten of the carnal mind, which hates all restrictions, all limitations placed upon its inherent unbridled license.

POSTERITY will have the right to demand that Christian Science be stated and demonstrated in its godliness and grandeur,—that however little be taught or learned, that little shall be right. " These words of our Leader in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p.

At the dedication of The Mother Church, I remember standing spellbound before that beautiful window whereon is so wonderfully portrayed the raising of Lazarus from the dead. I recalled Jesus' words, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals God's thoughts to mankind. Elucidating the teaching of Christ Jesus, it brings to light the things of God.

IT is of the utmost importance in the study of the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that clear distinction be made between those statements which are absolute in their meaning, which express the spiritual fact, and those which are relative, which express the human sense, the material point of view.

One of the most picturesque and significant movements of the middle ages was the crusades. They were picturesque because they were connected with the chivalry and piety of medieval Christianity.

The question, What is joy, and what is it to enjoy? is sometimes asked, and it can perhaps be most satisfactorily answered out of one's own experience. The mortal body without the aid of mortal mind could have no sense of pleasure; hence all joy must be mental.

Nineteen centuries ago Jesus came to earth, in evident fulfilment of the prophecies of a Saviour, given to the Jewish race. He proved himself to be "he that should come," by works of mighty power; nevertheless, when he imparted to the Jews a basic truth of his teaching, they cried out, uncomprehending, "He hath a devil.

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.