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TRUTH is radical, authoritative, absolute. It proceeds from eternal, divine Principle.

TWO friends had met and were talking with each other, To one the day seemed gloomy and the air uninviting; the melody of the birds brought him no music. To the other the bird songs were enchanting, the flowers were a delight, and the little brook made sweet melody as it ran by the garden.

IT is interesting to acquaint ourselves with the life and thought of those ancient worthies who, as our Leader says, "caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ" (Science and Health, p. 333), and among these none perhaps is more deserving of recognition and honor as a prophet than the great Swedish thinker, Kristoffer Jacob Bostrom, who was born in 1797, became teacher to the sons of King Oscar I.

IT is recorded in the fifth chapter of Mark's Gospel that Jesus on one occasion approached a man possessed of "an unclean spirit. " And the man, perceiving Jesus afar off, ran and worshiped him.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is a most significant name for a body of religious teaching. No mental jugglery is possible with the word "science.

" WHOM do men say that I the Son of man am?" is perhaps the most pregnant question ever propounded to a human being, and the Master evidently so regarded it. There is something to be gained by considering the exact structure of the question.

CAN evil be overcome with evil? Is it right to seek to overcome evil with evil? Is one ever justified in fighting the devil (evil) with his own weapons? Human beings seem to be confronted frequently by these questions, and while sometimes they recognize the true nature of the questions which they face, sometimes they do not. We would know better how to deal with such questions, if we understood them, and our ignorance certainly increases the seriousness of our problem.

THE varied experiences of the children of Israel during their deliverance from bondage and their forty years' sojourn in the wilderness are in a way typical of the experiences all seem called upon to pass through in their journey from the material sense of existence to the spiritual reality of being as it is revealed in Christian Science. As the follower of Christ, Truth, today compares his experiences, the trials and temptations, the joys and victories, with those of the children of Israel, he is oftentimes surprised to note the similarity between them.

WHEN "the seventy returned again with joy, saying. Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name," Jesus rejoiced with them, and reaffirmed in stronger terms this assertion of power.

EARLY in the experience of every one who is seeking a better way and is convinced that he has found it in Christian Science, there comes a period of rejoicing in the thought that evil has been dethroned. That God and good are synonymous terms, leaving no place to be filled by devil or evil, is a thought of restful significance, bringing peace and quiet into a world of struggle and tiresome effort and oftentimes apparent defeat.