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WHEN people first apprehend through Christian Science that in truth there is no sickness, sin, or death; no evil person, place, or thing, to fear or love; that the whole seeming discord is nothing but a mistaken belief of life and mind in matter, they are uplifted into such a sense of joy and gratitude that for a while they feel as if effort and strife were done with forever. Later comes the knowledge of the necessity of working out what they have learned in daily life, and sometimes a sense of disappointment comes in, as they see that, though reason and revelation alike show the utter impossibility of any substance, life, or mind existing outside of the infinitude of God's being, something seems continually to argue against this and to suggest the contrary.

The wise man says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path.

DURING the past year the writer has conversed, in a fraternal way, with numerous clergymen. Some have come to his office to inquire what there is in the Christian Science faith that gives the movement such vitality; some have accosted him in the street to propound questions.

A ROBUST optimism, hand in hand with the spirit of earnest investigation and an increasing altruism, seems to have ushered in this twentieth century. Politically and socially the new era has seen strenuous efforts, for the most part honestly made, to cleanse our house and put it in shining order.

What a world of trouble we should save ourselves if we met scientifically the burdens of every-day life. Christian Science teaches mortals how to distinguish between the real and the unreal, and how to deal with those things that must be classed as unrealities.

NO one has any quarrel with Christian Science—the quarrel is always with one's misconception of Christian Science; precisely as one has no quarrel with the universe as God created it, but has many protests against the universe as it appears to the five physical senses. Some critics, perchance, have dipped into Christian Science literature, have glanced through its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

CONTEMPORARY physicists, psychologists, and philosophers are practically unanimous in the opinion that matter is not an entity but an objective image of thought, the response of consciousness to the stimulus of certain invisible agencies; that color, resistance, and other phenomenal peculiarities are not qualities inherent in objects themselves, but are phases of sensation induced in consciousness by forces conceived of as operating from without. Even according to the findings of so-called natural science we do not and cannot become acquainted with these forces or agencies apart from their effects as observed through the medium of physical sensation.

THE constant aim of the disciple of truth is to prove to the world that righteousness is practical. It cannot be said that "righteousness and peace have kissed each other" until theory and practice are recognized as inseparable, for until the law of right is spiritually discerned and obeyed in daily living, the "peace of God," that peace "which passeth all understanding," is an unknown factor in human experience.

For mercy's sake, man, do not do that, it will be your sure death. Rise early, or you will be afflicted with obesity.

IT is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles that Paul was once questioned by the Athenians concerning "certain strange things" which they had heard that he preached. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.