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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.

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.

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.

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.