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There is scarcely a person on earth who does not expect that some day there will be a betterment of present conditions. In spite of the prevalence of crime, disease, sorrow, and manifold other disasters, hope remains undefeated, and one asks himself, What deep reason underlies an optimism that triumphs over so many reverses and survives so much despair? The answer is that hope has a definite, albeit dimly comprehended, reason or law, while despair is devoid of reason; that no divine law underlies despondency, whereas hope forms one of that inspired triad, "faith, hope, love" (Rev.

If we begin with the proposition that the source of all being is good, we must conclude that all which proceeds therefrom is also good. The process is simple and natural by which we reason from the perfection of God, the creator, to the perfection of all that he creates.

I. It would be difficult to find any type of mentality more inhospitable to new ideas than is that of the complacent exponent of a dominant religion—whatever that religion may be.

The tender interest of divine Love in its creation includes every created thing, for Love would be less than Love could it disregard even the least of its own. The Master, Christ Jesus, called attention to the universality of divine Love's overshadowing protection when he spoke of the great and good God who heeds the way of the sparrow and clothes the lilies of the field.

ONE of Scotland's best thinkers, Prof. Henry Drummond, left us a book, published after his death, in which he tried to forecast a new religion that would shortly come into the world, and one of the propositions he gives is this, "The leading Faculty of this new theology is not to be Reason.

FORTY years ago, when Mrs. Eddy first announced that Mind was the only legitimate healer of the body, there arose a storm of ignorant opposition which has not entirely subsided at this day.

THE life of Christ Jesus is an open book, and he who fails to comprehend in some measure its divine message may be accounted ignorant, even though he be considered wise in the knowledge of this world,—a wisdom which is described by Paul as "foolishness with God. " Jesus "spake as never man spake," and he proved by his works that his words were true.

With the rapid spread of Christian Science among the Jewish people, it is not surprising that frequent questions are asked of those interested, regarding the Christian Science standpoint as to the divinity of Jesus or the divinity of Christ. Other questions of similar purport are frequently asked, and it is better not to argue, or try to explain, as such explanation must necessarily be theoretical, and Christian Science does not deal with theories so much as with vital facts.

HUMBLE, childlike thankfulness is the first requisite in our warfare against financial limitation. This gives one a fixed determination to conquer and succeed which brings its inevitable result—prosperity.

AMONG all theories and philosophies about the nature of life and existence, those which have found sufficient evidence to warrant the assumption of a First Cause as the basis of all things,—one God, who is Spirit, who is eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, wholly good, and who is sole creator,—these present the fewest intellectual difficulties, though in many of them there are difficulties, and they are far and away the most productive of desirable practical results in the lives and experiences of those who hold them. This statement might be considered at length, and innumerable proofs of its truth offered; but all classes of Christians will admit its verity, and it is to those who are professed followers of Christ that we would speak.