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In his essay on William Pitt, Macaulay says, "The correctness of his private life added much to the dignity of his public character. " He might have added, "and to the efficiency of his public life.

JOHN says: "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

USUALLY it is not difficult for a patient to see that unbelief, lack of understanding, sin, doubt, discouragement, fear, and lack of application tend to retard or prevent healing in Christian Science. But there are hindrances of another class which stand in the way of the desired end, and which are usually more difficult for the patient to discern.

The apostle Paul has said, "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. '' Heaven is harmony; a state or condition of peace, joy, health, happiness.

We believe that selfishness can be cured only by religion —by a social religion, the aim of which is not to land the believer in heaven but to reform human nature upon earth. Religion has never fairly set itself to that direct object, though incidentally it has done much to promote it, often without intending it, and sometimes in spite of its own dogmatic precepts.

IN one of those inimitable essays which keep bright the memory of a radiant and dauntless personality, Stevenson decries the idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbor good. "One person," he says, "I have to make good: myself.

THE Scriptures refer to human existence as a sleep or dream, which evidently implies that so-called life in matter is an abnormal state of thought, in which the normal conditions of being are not cognized and from which mortals must awake to become conscious of man's spiritual identity and dominion as the child of God. David must have realized this when he wrote, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness;" and Tolstoi evidently caught a glimpse of the same truth when he said, as recently reported, that he looked upon this life as but one of many dreams.

MRS. EDDY tells us that "Christian scientific practice begins with Christ's key-note of harmony, 'Be not afraid'" (Science and Health, p.

NO one who has studied natural science, even in the most elementary way, can fail to be struck by the fact that one by one various theories have been put forward by human ingenuity to account for the relation and interaction of the constituents of the material universe and that one by one these theories have been discredited and destroyed by the light of discovery and experimental research. Paul was well aware of this when he said, "Whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

There certainly was not a time when God was not the Father. Neither, indeed, as though He had not brought forth these things, did God afterward beget the Son, but because the Son has existence not from himself, but from the Father.