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THE exponent of a demonstrable religion must keep constantly in touch with its moral and spiritual demands and strive to obey them, if he would ever merit the benediction, "Well done, good and faithful servant. " The fruit of the Spirit never matures on the plane of blind belief; it must ripen into enlightened faith and understanding before it can be garnered in demonstration.

THE angels' question upon the occasion of our Lord's ascension, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven," rebukes human unfaith today respecting the coming of the Comforter whom Christ Jesus said he would send. To the faithful students of Christian Science nothing is more conspicuous and astonishing than the sudden illumination of the Bible that follows even a slight understanding of Truth as it has been revealed to them.

NO religious writer, ancient or modern, whose writings have been preserved or are generally well known, ever dwelt upon God as omnipotence with the unvarying insistence which characterizes the writings of Mrs. Eddy.

IN the 55th chapter of Isaiah we read: "Seek ye the Lord while he may he found, call ye upon him while he is near. " To the one who is beginning to understand something of the great truth of God's omnipresence, through the inspired pages of Science and Health, this passage may come with somewhat of surprise, and appear to contradict the very idea which Mrs.

IN the 3rd chapter of Genesis we read, "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. " In Science and Health (p.

THERE is in mortal consciousness a belief of fear, hence the cheering and heartening ring of the angelic message at the birth of Jesus: '"Fear not; for," behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord" Then came that wondrous burst of song from the heavenly host, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

One member of The Mother Church A correction was made in the Journal : "We have been advised that the opening statement of the note on page 398 of the September  Journal , relative to the Boxer rebellion in Peking, is incorrect, in that there was at the time referred to only one member of The Mother Church in the city instead of two. We are sure that Dr.

Keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts.

NEAR the close of the first century of the Christian era, or, about sixty years after the great Teacher had passed from the view of men, the beloved disciple of Jesus was exiled to the island of Patmos in the Ægean sea, by Domitian, the Roman Emperor; and it was during this exile that John was vouchsafed the wonderful vision of the Apocalypse. The loving disciple who had leaned on the breast of his great Master had come close to the real inspiration of Truth under his intimate tutelage.

IT has been said that Christian Science must not be judged by Christian Scientists, and while it is a matter for regret that a warning to this effect should he necessary, it is within the power of each one of us, from the youngest to the oldest student, to do his or her part to render it less so. Again, in view of the present tendency of the thought of the world to seek for the solution of its problems in mind rather than in matter, it is becoming daily more and more incumbent on us who profess Christian Science to render ourselves such faithful exponents of it that the warning quoted may not apply, at any rate to us.