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IT is recorded in the Bible that the child Samuel was once awakened by a voice calling him, and that he ran to the aged priest, Eli, with the answer, "Here am I. " Eli replied that he had not called; but when Samuel had returned to his place, he again heard his name spoken, and again ran to the priest with the words, "Here am I; for thou didst call me.

MUCH of the teaching of the Scriptures is of a symbolic character which served to make the truth more intelligible to the reader, and which may have protected it from the mockery of the scoffer. Our Leader writes in Science and Health (p.

AMONG the utterances of those whose works have largely influenced the thought of mankind, we find frequent tribute to the power and value of music. It is seldom that these allusions deal with music as merely entertaining or superficially soothing, as in Dryden's verse:—   O lull me, lull me, charming art, My senses rock with wonder sweet.

The wise man is he who understands himself well enough to make due allowance for unsane moods and variations, never concluding that a thing is thus or thus because just now it bears that look; waiting often to see what a sleep, or a walk, or a cool revision, or perhaps a considerable turn of repentance will do. He does not slash upon a subject or a man from the point of a just now rising temper.

SAID the wise man of old, "Where there is no vision, the people perish:" and in later days a great philosopher, speaking to the youth of Athens, who if no longer under the thrall of paganism had not yet awakened to that largest service to mankind which Christianity was to reveal, said, "The gods are on high Olympus, but the Greeks are at your door. " In Palestine, still later, a greater teacher than Socrates, urging his followers to consecrate themselves to the service of humanity, exclaimed, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

THERE is no basis for comparison between Christian Science and other healing methods, for the simple reason that it is totally unlike anything else. Christian Science is a wholly spiritual system, and excludes the use of all material agencies, healing sickness and sin by the same divine Principle; whereas all other methods, including those which are called mental, rest upon a material foundation.

IN an allegory in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy refers (p.

Some time ago I witnessed a remarkable reflection of the full moon in a small pond. Not even a ripple marred its clear surface.

A GOOD example is the Word, made flesh. It is God's gracious means of expressing Himself in language which mortals can understand.

A BELIEF in immortality and in our progressive unfoldment in respect to all that is desirable and that promotes happiness, is sufficient reason for persistent effort to find and apply the healing truth. The truth as to any existing thing, creation, or condition, must reveal it in its perfection.