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THE sense of lack or limitation is a subtle thief that would rob the young Christian Science student of man's God-given birthright,—dominion over all the earth. —and thus, if this error be not speedily detected and summarily dealt with, delay his progress.

MUCH time has been spent in trying to prove or disprove the possibility of the occurrences related in the book of Jonah. It is not the writer's intention to take part in this argument, but to show that, no matter what conclusions may be reached as to the value of the book as historic fact, there are deep spiritual lessons to be learned from the experiences of Jonah, lessons which are of much more vital interest than any question as to whether or not the story is literally true in every detail.

HUMAN nature is much the same the world over, and the hope that my story may encourage others to investigate Christian Science prompts me to make mention of the experiences which awakened my own interest in it. My wife had been brought u among very religious people, with a strong tendency to "High Church," but at the time of which I speak she had practically lost all faith in religion, so much so that she said she could not tell the children anything about God, nor teach them the Bible, because she did not believe in it herself.

IN Matthew's Gospel we read: "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother. up to a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

Throughout the Scriptures are found glowing promises of health and all manner of good things which a loving Father waits to bestow on the children of men, and yet the world seems to abound in sickness and all manner of evil. This strange condition, this problem of human need and divine supply, has puzzled the thoughtful in every age.

IN Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy often speaks of the apparent obscuration of Mind, Truth, by mortal belief, under the figure of clouds obscuring the light of the sun.

THE fundamental teaching of Christian Science is that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468).

So  much of human nature has for so long been governed by all the conflicting elements of the anarchy called self, that government by Principle lies, like an undiscovered country, far beyond the borders of finite comprehension. The mental standard and moral codes of the civilized world hold much that approximates a high and selfless order of living, yet even this fruit of righteous effort may spring from right desire rather than from an enlightened understanding of the relation of God's man to his governing Principle, God.

Box G, Brookline, Mass. , July 12, 1909 Mrs.

Is not the evidence of ease on the very front of all the greatest works in existence? Do they not say plainly to us, not "there has been a great effort here," but "there has been a great power here"? It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things and this is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by the help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way, but lose some pounds of our own weight.