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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.

IT is as true today as it was twenty centuries ago, that "the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much," for Christian Science is proving daily that such prayer is potent to heal the sick and to reform the evil-minded. The secret and subtle purposes of evil never permeate the atmosphere of true prayer, which is in no way associated with evil or occultism.

One of the unjust things said of Christian Scientists is that they are a prayerless people. This arises in part, doubtless, from the differing conceptions of what prayer really is.

THE one all-absorbing statement in history, that the gift of spiritual healing was at a certain period lost to mankind, gives its restoration among us today all the more significance. Our historians of the past have not interested themselves overmuch with this particular subject, hence the writer of the future will have a story all the more absorbing to relate.

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.