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ACCORDING to Jesus' command, the work of a Christian Scientist is twofold, namely, "to preach the gospel, and to heal the sick. " The first is an endeavor to instruct the human consciousness out of its erroneous beliefs regarding God, man, and the universe.

MRS. EDDY tells us in Science and Health ( p.

IT should be remembered that Christianity is divine, not human; its means and methods are not evolved from the mortal mind; hence it is not surprising that the real function of prayer which is designed to lift thought above the sense of evil should not be readily understood by the evil-thinking mind. As a matter of fact mortals are being delivered or protected every day from troubles of various kinds through what they know of the right rule of things, although from this right rule the wrong way is wholly separated.

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.

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.

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.

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.