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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.

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.

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.

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.