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IN "Blair's Rhetoric" the opinion is expressed that the most sublime sentence in all literature is that in Genesis: "God said, Let there be light: and there was light. " This book was first published in 1783, in Scotland, and the natural sciences, so called, since then have been quite busily at work to change the image which that wonderful sentence presents to thought, a change which mainly concerns, however, the details of the deific processes of creation.

MATERIALISM , says that life is a phenomenon of matter: idealism that it is a phenomenon of mind or spirit. Christian idealism says that the life-principle is the divine Mind or Spirit.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is not a mysterious, occult human philosophy, it is the plain, practical knowledge of the divine law of being, as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. It is simplicity itself to the children, who readily adjust their thoughts to its teaching and prove its helpfulness in times of trouble.

IT is simply astonishing, how surely and quickly Christian Science breaks the spell of human fear, which is largely induced by belief in disease laws that have not the sanction of divine authority, and sets sufferers free to work out their own salvation in the Christ-way. Most people have witnessed the distressing spectacle of a bird so paralyzed before a cat that it will remain motionless in the presence of its enemy, and presently drop helplessly to the ground, a prey to that from which it seemingly could easily have escaped.

We learn from Science and Health (p. 468) that '"man is not material; he is spiritual.

IN a case of sickness where the nothingness of the error which holds the patient in bondage seems long in being demonstrated, it would be well if the patient thoroughly studied and made his own the many lessons embodied in the article named "Pond and Purpose" in "Miscellaneous Writings"(p. 204).

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.