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It is sometimes asked why all cases of disease are not quickly healed in Christian Science, assuming, of course, the sincere efforts of the practitioner to accomplish this result. Why it should ever be otherwise is a matter of much questioning and speculation.

Much has been written and said as to the fixity of natural law; meaning by natural law the supposed law of the so-called physical universe. Has any one ever defined such a natural law? Is there any comprehensive statement of a great law which rules all physical phenomena? In place of this, we find a multitude of so-called laws; indeed, it may be said that the discovery of new laws is quite as much the aim of the physicist as is his application of those already believed in.

This saying alone is not confuted, but abideth sure: that a man must shun the doing of wrong more than the receiving, and study above all things not to seem, but to be, righteous in the doing of his own business and the business of the city; and that if any man be found evil in anything, he is to be corrected; and that the next good thing after being righteous is to become righteous through correction and just retribution; and that all flattery of himself and of other men, be they few or many, he must eschew; and that he must use Oratory and all other Instruments of Doing for the sake of Justice alway. Socrates in "The Gorgias.

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.