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WHEN I first attended a Christian Science church, I was surprised to hear people testify of their gratitude to Christian Science for giving them the Bible. I had been a reader of the Bible from childhood, and found so much in it to delight and to help me, that I felt very sorry for people who had been so long deprived of its beauty and assistance.

THE earnest seeker for religious truth believes that he is justly entitled to whatever there is in another's faith that will increase his faith; he feels that he has a right to know what there is in another's life that will help him to live a better life. Since truth is one and universal, belonging to no person or class of persons to the exclusion of others, the grateful recipient of good rejoices that he is able to impart to others somewhat of that which has ennobled and blessed his life.

NO greater problems have been weighed in human thought than those concerning man's origin and destiny. These problems have possessed an imperishable interest for all peoples and during all ages known to history.

A WISE proverb says, "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him;" and in Psalms we read that those who shall abide in God's tabernacle, God's holy hill, are those who backbite not with the tongue, nor take up a reproach against a neighbor. The apostle James writes, "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body ;" and again, "Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

TO the novice in Christian Science the question frequently comes, "Why do I have so much to meet that I never noticed before?" and sometimes the query is accompanied by the statement that it was really easier in the old way. It was once my duty to care for a lawn.

ART in itself is not a thing apart from our daily lives. It finds its expression in the details of our homes and garments as well as in public buildings and statues.

A KNOWLEDGE of what constitutes reality is a primary essential in all metaphysical study. Every system of religion and philosophy has attempted to define reality.

IN studying the Bible narrative of the journeyings of the children of Israel, one cannot fail to be astonished at the chronic disobedience of this rebellious race. No people ever received such numerous and striking proofs of God's protecting care, yet we find them continually murmuring over some imaginary wrong.

ONE of the most important lessons taught by Paul to his beloved Timothy was that every man is called of God to eternal life, and that the attainment of this knowledge constitutes his individual work. The call to the Adam man was, is, and ever will be, "Have you overcome a personal sense of life as in matter by the spiritual perception of Life as God?" This call of Truth is heard by each one when the call of the world ceases to hold his attention.

IN the search for truth—and who seeks not for truth—the man who has begun to think is at first overwhelmed by multitudinous theories of those who claim that they at least are on the right road. The diversity of such opinions is so alarming that the pursuit along any accepted line of thought seems hopeless.