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TO one whose attention has been drawn to the subject of healing, through the study of Christian Science, there is something both striking and suggestive in the position assigned to the sermon on the mount in the Gospel according to Matthew. It occupies three chapters, numbered five, six, and seven, and so finds its place between the fourth chapter and the eighth.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE strongly emphasizes the clear logic and great wisdom of the Master's "beam" and "mote" advice, as the direct way to a settlement of all disagreements. The turning of one's thoughts from another to one's own consciousness surely is the effectual way to "agree with thine adversary quickly" and to settle the difficulty.

WHEN beginning to read the text-book of Christian Science, many doubtless find some of the statements acceptable because of what has been learned in their own so-called life experiences, eliciting the comment, "I know that is so," or "I. have found this to be true.

UNTIL the advent of Christian Science, the Christian world was asleep to the fact that "power belongeth unto God. " It fell far short of giving all power to right thought, even while declaring that God is omnipotent.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are convinced that the formation and establishment of The Mother Church of Christian Science was divinely sanctioned. It has no material ancestry, no predecessors.

The Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and author of its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," passed away at 10. 45 pm.

ONE of the most epoch-making disputes in the unfolding of human thought is that which culminated in the letter sent from the elders at Jerusalem by their "beloved Barnabas and Paul" to the Gentile churches. Love's impartiality, gilding the mountain-peaks of Jewish thought and character, as represented by the apostolic band, was bound to Hood the plains of prejudice below; and in Arts xv.

IN the Sunday edition of an eastern paper there appeared recently a very interesting article under the caption, "Making Darkness out of Daylight. " It was given with instructions for experiment somewhat as follows: Procure a wooden box, cover one side with glass, also make a small glass window in each end, and by a simple chemical process (which it is unnecessary to give here) extract all foreign matter from the air in the box.

WE all love David,—the poet, musician, prophet, king! How frequently we use his words of prayer and praise, his immortal psalms! Not many, however, may remember that David was also, on more than one occasion, a healer. King Saul, we read, was at times troubled by an "evil spirit.

There are those who argue that evil has a place in God's universe, that He has set two principles at work, and that evil would not appear as evil if we understood it aright. A lady whose thought worked in this line once said to the writer that evil must be examined and tested by man in order to learn its true value.