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Viewed from the outside, one of the seemingly hard teachings of Christian Science is that respecting love. Until we begin to have an understanding of the height and depth and breadth of universal Love, it seems to us cold and abstract to say that there is but one Love for all mankind.

But whence comes this disgust of life? We answer, From the comparative absence of life. No man feels it who feels the abounding reality of spiritual existence glowing within him.

FEW if any of the characters in sacred history had a more varied career than he who is first presented to us as Saul, the zealous persecutor of the Christians, and again, when "born of the Spirit," as Paul the saintly student and exponent of the Christ-teaching. Saul, we read, was born of good Jewish parentage, in the city of Tarsus, province of Cilicia, Asia Minor.

HISTORY has proven that the unfoldment of ideas in universal consciousness is identical with the awakening of the individual consciousness, so that we may legitimately draw a parallelism between our own spiritual awakening and that of the race. The record of creation, as given in the first chapter of Genesis and extending to the fourth verse of the second chapter, symbolizes the experience of each individual consciousness as it enters into and grasps the truth concerning God, the universe, and man.

THE all-important question, the all-pervasive note in present-day affairs, is freedom. The highest, the noblest, the most sacred quality in human life is freedom.

EVERY instance of the healing of sin or disease By Christian Science proves the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement that "there is but one primal cause.

SOME years ago electrical experts were puzzled to account for certain strange effects not explained by current knowledge. Most observers were content to call them freaks of the atmosphere.

THE influence of Christian Science upon the human understanding is not to glorify material personality, but to efface it, and so bring to light the true concept of man as spiritual and immortal. This does not mean the extinction, but the salvation, of mankind.

ONE who appreciates the value of accuracy and honesty in thought and in speech, finds rich resources in studying the derivation of words. Not satisfied to know their current modern acceptation, he searches to discover their source, and the development or accident through which they have passed from their origin to their present use.

THE story of the prophet Elijah, as given in the 19th chapter of 1 Kings, is replete with helpful lessons. The prophet was in a cave, hiding from the vengeance vowed by Jezebel, and in the utter desolation of the moment, he cried to the Almighty to take away his life and so save him from the sense of loneliness and failure.