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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.

AS the key to well-being, Christian Science unlocks the hopes, aspirations, and successes in human experience, and harmony is the result. As the rewarder of constant and faithful effort in behalf of good, harmony brings to men and women that uplifting, satisfying, and holy bliss which revives and renews as nothing else can.

A CASUAL visitor at a Christian Science meeting listened attentively to several testimonies of healing by the application of the word of God to the need of humanity. He then rose to his feet and said that while he believed, with the Christian Scientists, that God healed the sick, he also believed that the one receiving the blessing had his part to do in the work of healing.

WHAT one of us has not gone on from day to day, possibly from year to year, praying, "Not my will, but thine, be done," and then awakened to find that it was after all but a prayer of the lips, a mere repetition of words, though they seemed to have been uttered in all sincerity and wrung from the profoundest depths of the heart. Realizing this, can we not look back and clearly discern the reason for limitation or desire unfulfilled? How needless the mistakes, but how rich the lessons learned through hours of trial! One may study the letter of Christian Science for a long time, may even prove its Principle in some degree, and then find that human will and ambition have had a large place in one's life.

AN honest seeker for Truth has reverently propounded a series of questions and statements which embody such a large amount of prevailing inquiry respecting Christian Science teaching, that a statement in epitome of his queries, with some comments thereon, may prove helpful to the readers of the Journal. He said in substance,— Christian Science teaches the unreality of evil, and that there are no such things as sin, sickness, and suffering because God is All and He is good, hence evil cannot be of Him; but if there is no evil, no sin, sickness, or suffering, what was Christ's mission on earth? If evil is unreal, what reason was there for the appalling sacrifice that he made? To say that Christ came to destroy a belief of evil does not help the situation, because the belief itself is a most astounding evil.