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EVER since its establishment, Christianity has set itself the task of combating evil, and for centuries has carried on the struggle. Scores of noble lives have been given to this endeavor, and undoubtedly some progress has been made and the tide of evil has been in a measure checked; but it has not by any means been turned aside, much less entirely stanched.

THERE is much in the Scriptures to furnish a basis for the teaching of Christian Science to the effect that there is no evil in the divine consciousness. In the Old Testament we have the testimony of the prophet Habakkuk, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity;" and the psalmist sang, "The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Dignity is,— The visible poise of self-dominion. Calm heroism of character facing the inevitable.

IN the prophecy of Isaiah we read, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. " It is generally supposed that every event in the career of Christ Jesus is related to our salvation, excepting his immaculate conception; but in the light of Christian Science we find that the fact of man's immaculate origin and nature, as humanly revealed through Christ Jesus, is the very keynote of being, the corner-stone and foundation upon which each of us, as did Jesus, must base and build all our thought and demonstration.

WHEN Moses went up "into the mount of God," and there remained in communion with the most High for forty days and forty nights, he learned how men must make their offerings to God, for the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, "Of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. " Then followed for the people their kindergarten lesson of giving, when they furnished the materials for the tabernacle.

[A statement of the following very interesting case was sent to a popular magazine which had published the medical opinion that Christian Science has never healed any so-called organic diseases. The magazine did not see fit to publish Mr.

In thinking over our Leader's manifestation of love for humanity, one is led to inquire into his own consciousness, and therefrom perchance there comes the revelation of the necessity for a kindred demonstration. We are often led to wonder at and condemn the crass blindness of the disciples of Jesus, but sometimes one thinks that perhaps his own inability to grasp the true meaning of our Leader's injunctions is no less reprehensible than the failure of the Master's followers.

The belief of lack or limitation seems universal, since its cause, ignorance of God,—what He is and what He does for mortals,—is well-nigh universal. Human sense, from false teaching, believes the source of supply to be material; that it is subject to every law of limitation or fear, and that it can be cut off at any time.

After the wonderful and beautiful object-lesson to the human understanding, in the feeding of the five thousand men, besides women and children,—in which Spirit was shown to be the source of all supply and its measure abundance,—the command was given to "gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. " Like all revelation, this was an adaptation of spiritual truth to the human understanding, and was a result of Jesus' realization of Spirit as substance, the source of all good.

Where , in the old thought, was it possible to place Jesus? Those denominations under whose teaching Jesus has been accepted as both God and man are compelled to say that this is a doctrine which must be accepted and believed by what is styled an act of faith. Its present demonstration is impossible.