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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.

TELL his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee. " Was there ever a more winning message to a faithless follower than this, given on the morning of the resurrection? "And Peter.

IT is well worth the while of every Christian Scientist occasionally to ask himself, How am I regarding disease? To what extent do my preconceived opinions about it occupy my thought and influence the harmony of my life today? To what extent do they hamper my 'successful handling of it when I encounter it? Mrs. Eddy, by her fidelity to revelation and by demonstration, has made it possible for all of us to recognize the one true fact about disease, viz.

ONE of the strongest longings of the human race is the deep desire to know. Job said, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!'' To the child knowledge seems an attainable thing, its acquirement the natural consequence of the grown-up state; he supposes that he will grow into knowledge after the same inevitable manner that he will grow into manhood.

THERE is a something in the heart of mankind which ever rebels against limitation. There is nothing one so loves to do as to leap over or trample down barriers, to break laws of limitation.