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One of the great comforts brought by the understanding of Christian Science is the elimination of fear. It means much to change the sense that chance and accident may bring unavoidable evil into one's life, into a sense of the protecting care of God: but even this is not enough.

ONCE a Christian Scientist said to an inquirer, "Love never forgives, never condones, never forgets, for God is Love. " The statement fell on startled ears and trembling heart, but when the hearer was enlisted among the "doers of the word," he recognized the lovingkindness and the truth of the declaration.

MOST business men will have observed that when business is said to be good and prices are rising, the view-point of those engaged in business undergoes a change. There is a broadening of the outlook, a wider, more expansive thought of worldly matters, and more faith in good expressed.

THE real or spiritual man, to whose existence the greatest seers of the ages have borne consistent testimony, cannot be discerned from the standpoint of finite sense. Finite sense insists that the universe is material and that man is mortal.

THE passion for having "reason and the will of God" prevail, the thought that "culture is the pursuit of perfection," is the "line upon line" of Matthew Arnold's teaching. One gets in his thesis many a glimpse of a heart for which obedience to the divine will meant rightness, harmony, beauty, and joy; yet none of the apostles of "sweetness and light" at any time seem to have actually accomplished as much toward bringing the will of God to pass as the very religious bodies which they flouted as Philistines have done.

WITHOUT going into the derivation and dictionary meaning of the word recognition, let it be granted that to recognize any person is to know him by his appearance, his voice, his walk, or some characteristic or characteristics peculiar to himself. "By these means we are able to pick him out in a crowd and even to identify him in spite of some disguise.

THERE is perhaps no Bible narrative which teems with more helpful lessons for workers in Christian Science than that of the healing of the Gadarene, recounted in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. Jesus and his disciples were crossing the sea of Galilee, and on their way they encountered a terrific storm of wind and tempest, which lashed the sea to such fury that the boat and the little company were in great jeopardy.

IN early spring, when the willows by the brook are putting forth their downy catkins and the first robin's note gladdens the waiting ear, the desire is native with the human heart to have winter let go her icy fetters and speedily take her departure. Somewhat later, when the April showers have clothed the brown earth with an emerald sheen and the fruit-trees are in full flower, one might wish that the beautiful bloom of apple, pear, and peach would linger with us; but the fruit-trees are deaf to this unwise desire, and in a few days the winds, at play among the blossoms, scatter far and wide the pink and white petals.

At the regular business meeting of the New England Woman's Press Association, held at the Hotel Vendome Wednesday afternoon [Jan. 4], the following resolution was adopted and ordered spread upon the records, and a copy sent to the relatives:— "The members of the New England Woman's Press Association wish to express their share in the loss which has come to humanity in the passing of Mrs.

CITY GOVERNMENT PASSES RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT At the meeting of the city government, Monday night [Dec. 26], action was taken on the death of the Rev.