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ONE side of the street was given up to the huge factory building. On the other were pleasant homes that evidenced the occupancy of families of the comfortable middle class.

THE writer still remembers the eager expectancy with which he began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," for the first time. During many years I had been puzzled by the conflict which appeared to exist between certain generally accepted religious doctrines and what seemed to be a more rational interpretation of being, and when I learned that there was a "Key to the Scriptures" to be had.

IT was a glorious summer day. The sky was softly blue and the fields and hillsides were white with daisies.

IT might almost seem, from the attention which Christian Scientists devote to the healing of sickness, that this work is indeed, as some believe, the sole object of their ministry; but Mrs. Eddy makes this distinct statement: "The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin" (Rudimental Divine Science, p.

STUDENTS of Mrs. Eddy's text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," will recall the passage in which she says that we must "rise into higher and holier consciousness" (p.

BUNYAN, in his incomparable allegory, presents his pilgrim as fleeing from the City of Destruction— from the materiality of mortal sense, from the baselessness of earthly pleasure, from the tyranny of evil, from the fear of death—and crying, "Life! life! eternal life!" And indeed these little words "life" and "death" stand for the heart-hunger and the perpetual fear of all the ages. Joy and sorrow, hope and despondency, happiness and misery, love and loneliness, are in their content and suggestion.

THE opportunity to choose the more excellent way in life comes at some time to every man. He may not know the precise moment; the opportunity may present itself more than once; he may nut be conscious when or where he makes the choice.

THOUGHT is startled, with apparently increasing frequency, these days, by reports of "tragedies which witness to the willingness and desire of even good, unselfish, and professedly Christian men to flee the bounds of this mortal life, with the evident anticipation or hope that their conditions will thereby be improved, or at least that an endless sleep will bring escape from a no longer endurable experience. Such events, especially when they happen to some one we know, are apt to lead us to ask a question of the most practical significance, "Why?" Why, in a world which We have assumed is of God's creating, should one of His creatures find things so intolerable, so utterly hopeless and unbearable, that he should want to escape from it at any cost? It is a question which has troubled and baffled the wisest and the best.

THE Christian Science text-book informs us that "Life is divine Mind" (Science and Health, p. 469), and this statement is in agreement with the utterance of Jesus: "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

What is praise? First a song, second a prayer. A song rising in the human heart, welling up from the depths of being; an expression of joy, gratitude, love, thanksgiving to the infinite Father, to the author of all harmony.