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What the world needs more than its religious doctrines is the willingness to abide by them, if they are true. While the creeds and doctrines of Christian sects are practically a unit in their statement of the fundamental truths concerning Deity, there is but little agreement as to the measure of their applicability to human affairs, and less willingness to adhere to them if they conflict with personal opinion or the deductions of material hypotheses.

IN this country there are thousands of young men standing on die threshold of their career, seeing the need of an advanced education, but without the means of acquiring it. Too often the result is that ambition is thrown to the winds, or its flames allowed to smolder and die through tear, ignorance, or lethargy.

IN all ages of the world's history, preaching has been a habit which mankind has loved to cultivate. At the same time, practice, with its host of promises and possibilities, has often been allowed to lie dormant and undeveloped, to be an almost forgotten thing.

In coming into the harbor of New York, many years ago, I was much impressed with the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," a colossal figure which towers above the water, and light in hand illumines the way. So imposing and majestic was this statue that I wondered why a woman had been selected as the type of liberty, despite the fact that women are more or less oppressed in all nations, having to struggle for their liberty even in the most civilized countries.

A CERTAIN hickory tree which shades our lawn has lately been the means of teaching so valuable a lesson that its story is here told for the benefit of others who, figuratively speaking, may have hickory trees on their own premises. Each year when the arrival of spring causes the other trees to put forth their leaves, this one stands for weeks in gaunt and bare unloveliness.

THE term error is used in Christian Science to designate all false beliefs and their consequences. Error is a phenomenon, an appearance; it is sometimes an appearance of truth, but it is not truth.

UPON Christian Scientists is laid the task of striving to upbuild God's kingdom in the earth. Christ Jesus said of himself and of his works.

IT is impossible to contemplate the works of Mrs. Eddy without being almost startled by the vastness of the achievement.

IN the conversion of the world to a practical Christianity through the influence of Christian Science teaching, no small place is occupied by the hymnal used by Christian Scientists. In every Christian Science gathering throughout the world, on Sundays and on Wednesday evenings, selections from the hymnal are used to express the conviction of the newly awakened thought; to voice the gladness of those who are experienced in the healing work of Truth, the aspirations of those who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness: to whisper the prayer of those who stand upon the threshold of salvation and in trembling hope and awesome faith appeal to the God of Israel for a surcease of sorrow and pain and sickness and discouragement.

PERHAPS no belief is more firmly grounded in the minds of men than that death is inevitable and unescapable. If a consensus of opinion were taken as to whether or not death can be escaped from by any one under any possible circumstances, the verdict of the great majority would be that it cannot.